Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!ncifcrf!haven!udel!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: 4 Megg SIMMs. Should I or shouldn't I? Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 13:38:27 GMT References: <121667@tiger.oxy.edu> <18741.2734aee5@windy.dsir.govt.nz> <1990Nov6.041551.2038@panix.uucp> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 22 In-reply-to: alexis@panix.uucp's message of 6 Nov 90 04:15:51 GMT In article <1990Nov6.041551.2038@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes: >In any event, you probably don't want to do this. The money you spend on the >board could instead go to 4MB SIMMs. Furthermore, access to that RAM would go >over NuBus, and would thus be _slow_ compared to regular memory. (I seem to >recall a minimun 300ns access time, though I'm not sure. That would make it >about 4 times slower, although you might make some of it back on wait states >you wouldn't need.) I didn't realize this. I knew the NuBus was slow, but this is ridiculous. I guess I have been spoiled by *real* workstations. :-) > Tech issues aside, the economics of the situation pretty much rule it out, > I think... Well, I thought if I could get a bare board for $200-$300, and get 16 Megs of 256K SIMMS for free, I could come out ahead. I guess not. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett