Justification of a 128bit address bus....

From: Arfon Gryffydd <ArfonRG_at_DIEspammerSCUM.Texas.Net>
Date: Thu Oct 22 18:39:08 1998

        Back in 1981 when I got my first computer..... My friends all had 4K of
memory... We had cassettes and I was a bigshot with a TRS-80 Model II
with 64K and a DISC DRIVE. (Yes, all the nerds in my neighborhod
worshipped my machine). 10 Mb hard discs were about $2000.00 (and as big
as the Model II.) (You ever notice how much I like "( )"???)

        Then at the end of the 80's one of my teachers got an IBM... He had
640K!!!! That was an incredulous amount! Now I have 64M in one machine
and about 10Gb worth of Hard disc space.... I have fought with DOS's 640K
limit and the 504Mb size problem of the IDE hard discs and the worst one of
all: NOT enough IRQs!!!! Whoever came up with segmented memory and that
damned IBM IRQ scheme should be locked in a room and forced to use a
x486SX-25 and Win98!!! (FYI: No problems with Y2K, I'm running Linux).

        Again, I say that it is better to over-kill in the beginning than patch
everything later. If you are dealing with a 64 bit data bus, It is nice
and easy to just use two data widths (packaging is a bitch but, that can be
overcome).

Just call me Pastor Arfon of the "If I Had $200,000,000,000.29" Computer
Church.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build
bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce
bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook
Received on Thu Oct 22 1998 - 18:39:08 BST