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From: slin@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Philip Lin)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a good, cheap 386
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Date: 1 Sep 88 04:17:11 GMT
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In article <8612@cup.portal.com> Sorceress@cup.portal.com writes:
>$1740 for 3mb of ram sounds awfully high, even at the current inflated prices.
>Just from the price, I would guess that you are refering to 256K DRAMs. You
>might want to consider using 1 MBIT DRAMs, they are a LOT cheaper.

$1740 for 3mb of ram comes out to $16.11 per chip.  While that is somewhat
high, I believe the $1740 cost also includes the cost of the memory board that
comes along with it (a piggy-back board for the main memory board).  
Furthermore, these are not just 256K DRAMs, these are 256K static column
DRAMs.  They are slightly faster in either row or column address acess (I
can't remember which).
      I must disagree with the comment that 1 MBIT DRAM are cheaper.  The last
I heard was that they were still at least twice as much as 256K paged modem
(mode, I meant).  I could be wrong though.  Does anyone know?