[rescue] Good source for Rambus?

[Francois Dion]

Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Apr 1, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Francois Dion wrote:
>
>> Beside the politics, particularly in 2000 (I just realised that I've 
>> had this machine for over 3 years, not 2), why do you say everyone 
>> realized that it was a bad idea?
>
>
>   Because everyone abandoned it. 


Everybody has abandonned *(pick any computer we are running in our 
basements or in your case your garage yet were great designs)* but it 
still doesn't make them bad ideas...

>   I don't know what the actual production volumes are, but I'd wager 
> RAMBUS memory is manufactured at a rate probably one-thousandth that 
> of DDR or PC133 (or whatever the PeeCee memory-of-the-week is) modules.

Windows outsells Unix, therefore Windows is better and Unix is a bad idea?

:)

At any rate, I need to bring my machine up to 1GB to run Oracle 10G 
(altough you can get it to install/run on 768MB), which should be 
available for Solaris x86 this month. I dont want to replace the mobo to 
use DDR, so I'm trying to buy for a reasonable cost or trade a pair of 
256MB. Next mobo I get will run an Opteron and whatever ram techno is 
best suited.

Francois