On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 08:06 pm, Don Tillman wrote:
>> From: "charel196" <charel196@...>
>> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:04:40 -0000
>>
>> Regarding the amount of memory for a complete tape bank,the Pinder CD
>> rom banks,with every note sampled full length,take up 12-16 meg in
>> ram apiece.I have my E4K maxed out to 128 meg ram and a 3 gig HD to
>> hold most of the disc.Seems to me the cost of rom/ram "should" be
>> coming down as technology moves forward.
>
> As much as I hate the idea of a digital Mellotron, I'll do the
> honorable thing and point out that...
>
> The price of memory has been dropping by roughly a factor of ten every
> five years. That translates to a factor of 100 every decade and a
> factor of 10,000 every 20 years. That rate has been remarkably
> consistant since memory was first invented, maybe around 1945 or
> thereabouts, and show no sign of changing. (!!!)
>
> And the price of RAM, ROM and disk have been tracking mighty closely,
> so much so that the relationship between them hasn't really changed
> since the 60's. (Ie., we still use disks for files and virtual
> memory.)
>
> Computer engineers know that if any approach is considered too costly
> in the memory department, just wait a couple years and the problem
> will be solved.
>
> -- Don
It's cheap already.... This email is being typed on an iMac with 512MB
RAM and and an 80GB HD.... It was cheaper than my rebuilt M400!!....
Not as loved though!!
C