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From: pbickers@groucho
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: RC3230 General Query
Summary: 3230 or 3240?
Keywords: RC3230
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.175729.6575@groucho>
Date: 10 Sep 90 17:57:29 GMT
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In article <659@ghp.UUCP> richard@ghp.UUCP (Richard Chan) writes:
>
>We are considering a RC3230 RISComputer running 8 users simultaeously off serial
>ports.
>
>The configuration we are considering is:
>
>	MIPS computer systems
>		RC3230 RISCcomputer at 25 MHz
>		R3010 Floating point processor at 25 MHz
>		64 KB of I&D caches
sounds like RC3240; 3230 has 32KB of each
>		8 MB of main memory
>		2 serial ports
sounds like 3230; 3240 has 4 ports + 4 AT slots
>		SCSI controller
>		2 200 MB 3.5" disks (seagate drive)
>		thick Ethernet interface
>		TCP/IP and NFS networking software
>		power supplies and cabling
>		RISC/os 4.50 (UNIX SYS V.3.2) license
>	Terminal(console), keyboard and line printer
>	additional 8 MB of main memory
>	6013-N 120 MB,1/4" cart. tape drive
>	ROS45B-MED RISC/os media
>	ROS-00-DOC RISC/os documentation set
>	16 port serial I/O board.
>		
could be either; the 3230 has a single ISA slot which will take the I/O
board

I draw attention to this because I have seen 2 postings in reply which
clearly assume you mean a 3240 (essentially an upgraded M120) rather than
the new (released last May) 3230.

The 3230 takes (cheap) 3rd party SIMMS and so increasing the RAM is not 
a problem.  Get the 8MB version and add all you can afford.

-- 
Paul Bickerstaff                 Internet: pbickers@neon.chem.uidaho.edu
Physics Dept., Univ. of Idaho    Phone:    (208) 885 6809
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