Edward Jaffe wrote:

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Understand, this is not the price for the memory. This is just the
price to _enable_ the memory.
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It is indeed the price of some  trivial, off-the-shelf µcode changes;
and these changes are not very size-sensitive.  A [small] flat charge
would have been more appropriate.

I said here on another occasion that some microprocessor assembly
languages had clearly been designed to discourage their use; but here
we have something subtler: this scheme will produce some high-margin
revenue too.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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