[rescue] SPARC memory query

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 08:20 AM, Carl R. Friend wrote:
>    It's a game called "toss the bottleneck", and one that PC
> manufacturers are getting rather good at.  Nobody wants the
> bottleneck in their backyard (sort of like Dilbert's dead wood-
> chuck) so they toss it to the next bloke.  The net result is
> a poorly balanced system (or an entire neighbourhood that
> stinks).  (The other analogy might be playing catch with a live
> grenade where the "winner" gets the show-stopper.)

   Well said.

>    Balance used to matter a whole lot, and people spent vast amounts
> of time fine-tuning entire systems (not just subsystems).  But that
> was also before computers were commodity items with dozens of times
> the amount of horsepower that anybody actually needs (save gamers).
> The answer today is throw more speed somewhere and get it to market.

   Absolutely.  But while that's the answer in the PC world, I believe 
the rest of it still cares about balance.  Look at Sun's and IBM's 
machines, for example.

       -Dave

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