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From: jona@bcr.bellcore.com (Jon Alperin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: What should I buy with a r6000?
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.221355.16179@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 22:13:55 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.233040.18106@athena.mit.edu> <1991Mar6.182757.13151@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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In article <1991Mar6.182757.13151@odin.corp.sgi.com>, jeffs@soul.esd.sgi.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
|> |>   1. 3rd party memory?? IBM wants >$4000 to go from 8-16 meg.
|> 
|> I think there are companies that will sell IBM style syms, so you can upgrade
|> a 8M board to something higher.  The board is harder to make, and I don't
|> know if they have been cloned yet.
|>

- Be careful...IBM has marketed several versions of their memory chips (SD1, HD4),
and most are not available from 3rd party (In fact, the ones that I have talked to
could only reply "Duhhh" when I asked which chips they had). I have been told 
that you cannot mix the chip types, even between the paired boards.

Jon Alperin
Bell Communications Research
* All opinions expressed are my own *