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Subject: Re: misunderstanding about PC cards (deep blue)

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 13:43:10 06/28/98

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On June 28, 1998 at 02:30:52, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>>And if the DB hardware is too big or hot to be inside an ordinary PC, it can be
>>placed in an external box with an expansion card to interface with it.  But
>>would the PCI bus present a bandwidth bottleneck when compared with the
>>processor and DB chip speed?  Or would the DB hardware have its own processor
>>which does the coordination between the DB chips.
>
>The new 3D chips coming out are probably at least as big and hot as a DB chip,
>and cooling them isn't a huge problem.

I see I left something out - my concerns were about the 8 chip version.



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