clipka wrote:
> (2) Capacity of memory basically has nothing to do with access speed.
Of course it does. You have speed-of-light delay and address line cascading
to decode. The slowness isn't due primarily to accessing the memory cells.
It's due to the cascade of gates you have to go thru to decode the address
to figure out which cell. That's why video memory can be so much faster than
CPU memory - there's an access pattern (the video beam scan) that can be
used to speed up address decoding.
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