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From: "Greg Chesson" <greg@xtp.engr.sgi.com>
To: offer@morgaine.engr.sgi.com (Richard Offer), linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [Fwd: linus.linux.sgi.com]
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:08:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9901191908.ZM20787@xtp.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: offer@morgaine (Richard Offer) "Re: [Fwd: linus.linux.sgi.com]" (Jan 19,  6:28pm)

This is a case of rocket brains getting confused by misleading specs
in the commodity world: a 50ns dram or sdram is very fast - that refers
to the cycle time of the internal dram core whereas a PCI-100 compliant
memory must operate on a 100 Mhz (10ns) bus and needs a latch time
better than 10ns.

g

-- 
Greg Chesson

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: "Greg Chesson" <greg@xtp.engr.sgi.com>
To: Richard Offer <offer@morgaine.engr.sgi.com>, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [Fwd: linus.linux.sgi.com]
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:08:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9901191908.ZM20787@xtp.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990120030819.i12LdJ8ex9z6qr1RC15GfK8be6lsmQ658Nw7FehQi8E@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: offer@morgaine (Richard Offer) "Re: [Fwd: linus.linux.sgi.com]" (Jan 19,  6:28pm)

This is a case of rocket brains getting confused by misleading specs
in the commodity world: a 50ns dram or sdram is very fast - that refers
to the cycle time of the internal dram core whereas a PCI-100 compliant
memory must operate on a 100 Mhz (10ns) bus and needs a latch time
better than 10ns.

g

-- 
Greg Chesson

  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-01-20  3:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-19 23:28 [Fwd: linus.linux.sgi.com] dmanddmer
1999-01-19 23:28 ` dmanddmer
1999-01-20  1:29 ` Chad Carlin
1999-01-20  1:29   ` Chad Carlin
1999-01-20  2:04   ` job bogan
     [not found]     ` <job@piquin.uchicago.edu>
1999-01-20  2:28       ` Richard Offer
1999-01-20  2:36         ` Ken Klingman
1999-01-20  2:36           ` Ken Klingman
1999-01-20 21:18           ` David Watters
1999-01-20 21:18             ` David Watters
1999-01-20  3:01         ` job bogan
1999-01-20  3:01           ` job bogan
1999-01-20 21:29           ` David Watters
1999-01-20 21:29             ` David Watters
1999-01-20  3:08         ` Greg Chesson [this message]
1999-01-20  3:08           ` Greg Chesson
1999-01-20  3:32     ` Chad Carlin
1999-01-20 16:02     ` Eric Kimminau
1999-01-20 15:18 ` Eric Kimminau
1999-01-20 21:55   ` David Watters
1999-01-21  7:11   ` David S. Miller
1999-01-22 19:14     ` Jeffrey Watts

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