Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT software size Message-ID: <1991May9.174252.6641@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 9 May 91 17:42:52 GMT References: <1991May5.124008.24559@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991May6.113553.8351@sugar.hackercorp.com><1991May7.055159.1474@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <3409.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Lines: 18 jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: >Quoted from by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): >> Four megs of RAM costs less than $200. You should try shopping around. > Is this true for any sort of RAM? Our user groups is selling 1MB 80ns SIMMs for $38 each here. The Chip Merchant sells 4MB SIMMs for $159. Side note: One firm has just announced the availability of 16MB SIMMs [using 16Mbit chips]. Price: a cool $7500 each. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu Murphy's Law of Intelism: Just when you thought Intel had done everything possible to pervert the course of computer architecture, they bring out the 860