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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Various RS/6000 questions
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Date: 4 Sep 90 20:05:32 GMT
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1.  Third party RAM:  I've seen it advertised, but has anyone actually
bought any?  What was the cost in terms of $/MB?

2.  CD-ROM.  Is IBM doing their own standard, or is it one of the
SONY/ISO/whatever standards?  Can I boot from CD-ROM?  What products
from IBM are available on CD-ROM?  (Other than AIX.)

3.  Languages.  We were told "IBM will support C, where C means:
ANSI C, C++ and Objective C."  All I've seen so far is ANSI C.
Any news on the other two?

4.  Third party disk drives.  Any horror stories?  I assume that
IBM correctly implented the SCSI standard... :-)

5. Graphics cards.  Anyone bought any of them?  How do they really
perform relative to a stock 320 (what we plan on buying the most of).

Please email replies, I'll summarize if there's interest.

Thanks.
--
J. Eric Townsend -- University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics (713) 749-2120
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