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

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 10:34:45 06/29/98

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On June 28, 1998 at 16:43:10, Tim Mirabile wrote:

>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.

I understood that, which is why I replied as I did.

kp



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