Pascal Schmidt wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 PS> Hi Charles! :-)

 CA> There will never be enough hard drive space or memory but you
 CA> probably already realize that. I dream of 1 gig of memory
 CA> knowing at some point I would want more. Everything is just so
 CA> darn fast when in-memory and not reading/writing to the hard
 CA> drive. :-) 

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

This is going back a few years,  but there was a local computer store
around here that at one time advertised a machine they called their
"Pentium-killer". It was a 486,  but of a special design,  so
that _all_ of the ram in it was as fast as most cache in those days was.  I
never did get much in the way of details as to just what brand of MB or
what kind of ram they were using in it back then,  but it sounded pretty
nifty...

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