Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!stat!stat.fsu.edu!mccalpin From: mccalpin@masig3.masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: 3rd Party Hardware Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 89 16:31:09 GMT References: <8910301436.AA16360@lerc08.lerc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@stat.fsu.edu Organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute Lines: 28 In-reply-to: fsfacca@LERC08.LERC.NASA.GOV's message of 30 Oct 89 14:36:07 GMT In article <8910301436.AA16360@lerc08.lerc.nasa.gov> fsfacca@LERC08.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) writes: >"Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854" writes: >> NO, SGI's pricing does not make sence. Why should we pay SGI >> $22,000 for 24Mb of memory and have only a 90 day warranty, when >> we can buy the same amount of memory from someone else for less than >> $6000 and get a lifetime replacement garantee? > ^^^^^ >Brent, >Your point is well taken. However, you exaggerate. You can buy the same >amount of memory from Clearpoint for around $4000. :-) >Tony Facca | phone: 216-433-8318 Does anyone know what speed is required for the SIMM's in a Personal IRIS 4D/20 and 4D/25? For the NeXT machine, it is possible to find 1 MB 100 ns page-mode SIMM's for under $100! Since the 4D/20 is only running at 12.5 MHz and the NeXT is running at 25 MHz, the memory speed should be comparable (assuming that the Motorola chip is running on a multi-cycle memory access scheme). -- John D. McCalpin - mccalpin@masig1.ocean.fsu.edu mccalpin@scri1.scri.fsu.edu mccalpin@delocn.udel.edu