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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Subject: Re: Garbage collection cost (was Re: Parenthesized syntax challenge)
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In article <47l442$ap0@pioneer.uspto.gov>, wright@uspto.gov (Dirk Wright) wrote:

> Mike Christiansen (mikec@metronet.com) wrote:
> : boehm@parc.xerox.com (Hans Boehm) wrote:
> 
> : >1.  I vaguely recall that memory was around $20/MB around 1991
> : >(corrections appreciated).  The current price is around $30/MB.
> : >Processors have gotten much faster since then.
> 
> : Yea..This is one is a real problem. Why haven't dram prices tracked
> : processors? 
> 
> I suspect that an international cartel has been formed to keep dram prices
> high, like in the diamond and oil industries. I have no evidence of this,
> however.

You're probably right, in a sense.  There has been great pressure on the
Japanese to not flood the U.S. market with semiconductors.  Perhaps they
are obliging us ??

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