Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "How America Won Back Semiconductors from Japan" video.

  1. The "dumping" wave was led by Micron for their own benefit. They were perhaps the first tech company that showed they could have a big effect by spreading money around Washington. The rest of us paid for that. DRAMs in the early days were a big cost item for computers. The 64k "wall" was a big step, forgotten now. It meant that the entire memory space of the 16 bit address processors could be filled with a single chip, and led to the implementation of transparent bootstrap roms, which, with a cpu hardware bit, could be read, but writes would go to main memory. This allowed the computer to copy it's bootstrap rom into dram, then turn the bit off and run in full 64kb with dram only.
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