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to: Paul Rogers
from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 2003-11-03 04:05:46
subject: I must be getting old

Paul Rogers wrote in a message to Pascal Schmidt:

 PS> Heh. Exactly the reason why I have 640M in my machine. Now
 PS> imagine how fast a machine with an on-CPU cache of that
 PS> size would be. ;)

 PR> I just had to sigh and shake my head when I saw a 1GB DIMM
 PR> advertized in a Fry's (our version of a "candy store") ad.

 PR> Maybe someday I can bore you with a description of the S360/91 32K
 PR> water-cooled memory modules, back in the days when it was an
 PR> acknowledged "super computer".

What did they make them out of,  discrete components?  Something else?  I'm
not real knowledgable about that stuff,  not having worked directly with it
at all.

 PR> ... Nobody expects a fannish imposition!

Uh oh.  A fan too?  :-)

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