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Why is it funny. You could just go to a computer store and buy RDRAM.
by rowanG077 2y ago
Why is it funny. You could just go to a computer store and buy RDRAM.
- twoodfin 2y agoIt wasn’t a commodity! It was a single-owner proprietary technology. You needed a license from Rambus to manufacture it. And at least at the time it commanded a premium price over true commodity DRAM. People on Slashdot got really worked up when Intel signed a deal with Rambus to make RDRAM the only supported technology on Intel x86—from which they relatively quickly backtracked. Anandtech (sniff) of course has great contemporary background: https://www.anandtech.com/show/545 https://www.anandtech.com/show/545