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- From: jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com ()
- Subject: Re: alpha memory requirements (vs vax) ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.165643.16911@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:56:43 GMT
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- This is a collection from several postings in this stream.
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- |>
- |>Nonetheless it's too expensive... 70ns 1Mb chips are selling for less
- |>than $2.50 per in volume... that works out to less than $25 for a
- |>9-chip SIMM. If your manufacturing cost is as high as $10/SIMM,
- |>that's still nearly a 300% markup.
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- The only option with the 1Mbit chips is the 16MB option (which has 8 2MByte
- SIMMS in it) The rest use 4Mbit memory technology.
- |>
- |>For the more popular personal computers you can get a 4MB SIMM at 70ns
- |>for less than $125. And don't tell me that it's lower quality...
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- Of course those memory SIMMs aren't ECC now are they?
-
- > What astonishes me is that (1) only "a future version of the
- >operating system" will support more than 128 Mbyte/256 Mbyte on the
- >400s/500s
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- The "future version of the OS" isn't what was said. What was said is that
- we'll support those in the future. That "future" depends heavily on the
- availability and price of 16Mbit chip technology. Right now, they're
- more than 4* the price of 4Mbit chips, thus we're not convinced people would
- consider paying for those.
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- William M. Jackson
- Workstation Product Marketing Manager
- Workstation Engineering
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- 146 Main Street
- Maynard, MA 01754
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- Mail: Jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com
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