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From: AER7101@TECHNION.BITNET (Zvika Bar-Deroma)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: What should I buy with a r6000?
Message-ID: <91067.184726AER7101@TECHNION.BITNET>
Date: 8 Mar 91 13:17:25 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.233040.18106@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology.
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In article <1991Mar4.233040.18106@athena.mit.edu>, chuck@marie.mit.edu (PARSONS,
CHARLES) says:
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>  1. 3rd party memory?? IBM wants >$4000 to go from 8-16 meg.
Whether IBM or 3rd. party, buy lots of it ! Certainely NOT 8meg.-
16 is a minimum, 32MB probably makes more sense, but you really have
to benchmark your applications in order to decide.


>  6. Any problem with just 4 slots? I need ethernet, an external scsi
>     controller and graphics. It would be nice to have 1 slot free. does
>     24 bit color take 2 slots?
I think that the Silicon Graphics adapter requires 2 slots, so in case
that's what you need, you'll have NO free slots left.
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>  7. How is the IBM 19" monitor?
great !


/Zvika

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