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- From: Josef Moellers <mollers.pad@sni.de>
- Subject: Re: How does RAM on fast (10+ MIPS) machines work?
- Sender: josef@nixpbe.sni.de (Moellers)
- Message-ID: <josef.713689685@uranium>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:08:05 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.134629.290@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany
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- In <1992Aug12.134629.290@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> geoffrey@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Geoff Thomas) writes:
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- >I'm wanting to build up a computer based on some fast RISC type processor,
- >but I'm not sure how to incorporate memory chips into the machine. As far
- >as I can tell, most common DRAM chips are too slow, and I preferably don't
- >want to waste processor time on wait states, so how can I get nice 32/64-bit
- >memory that works with a >10MIPS processor (ideally >100MIPS, such as the
- >i860 or DEC Alpha processors)?
-
- Throw in a nice little cache!
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