<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 16, 2007 1:28 AM, Tim Schmidt <<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p><DEFANGED_div class="Ih2E3d">On Nov 16, 2007 1:15 AM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> </p><DEFANGED_div><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> I just bought 4GB of memory for $100<br>> recently. For someone with deep pockets
<br>> a 100GB or more of memory could be<br>> practical today. As soon as anyone makes<br>> a motherboard to enable this anyway.<br><br></p><DEFANGED_div>They've been around for a while... for instance, this system supports
<br>128Gb: <a href="http://tyan.com/product_barebones_detail.aspx?pid=348" target="_blank">http://tyan.com/product_barebones_detail.aspx?pid=348</a><br><br>They're just getting cheaper :)<br><p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div class="Wj3C7c">
<br>--tim<br> </p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div></blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div>Interesting. It seems (to me) that<br>memory costs have taken a dive<br>in the recent past. It could be that<br>demand has gone down, that yields<br>have gone up for some reason, etc.
<br>I don't think memory has ever been<br>this cheap per megabyte - in fixed<br>dollars.<br><br>Years ago the US gov't accused the<br>Japanese of duming memory, and<br>impossed a stiff tariff. The Japanese<br>obliged us, and cut down on shipments
<br>to the US. Memory prices went sky<br>high. I remember paying ( with someone<br>else's money ) $200 for 1MB of Sun<br>workstation memory. Probably a high<br>water mark. <br><br> -Bob<br><br></p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><br>