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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:53:16 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        john@goodleaf.net
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT-DDR hardware? 
Message-ID:  <200010232053.e9NKrGh04777@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:21:38 GMT." <20001023182138.7EAB15BA9@clyde.goodleaf.net> 

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> 
> I'm getting interested in the x86 again. The new Micron DDR RAM chipset is
> looking kind of cool, and since I'm seeing prices for DDR that are hardly
> higher than for conventional SDRAM, I might indulge in such as system.
> 
> How's FreeBSD looking with regard to the this new memory standard (if I may
> use the word)?

Why would FreeBSD care?  It's just memory. 8)

Seriously; there's less than no chance that a new memory standard would 
require any software support with the market the way it is.  Legacy 
compatibility is *everything*.

-- 
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
           V I C T O R Y   N O T   V E N G E A N C E




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