yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) (02/23/90)
sritacco@hpdmd48.HP.COM (Steve Ritacco) writes: >If I had to >guess what is going on, I would guess that access to the I-cache is >very wide, It's 4 words wide, and they claim a transfer rate (if memory serves me :) of some 400 Mbytes/sec. The problem here is that you have to buy their memory which is incredibly expensive: $6000+ CDN for 8 megabytes. >On a side note, does IBM think workstation boxes need to be ugly to >be impressive, or was their industrial design team out to lunch? I fully agree here! These things (especially the 320) are the ugliest boxes money can buy. Certainly this all sprang from the PS/2 line and their want of uniformity, but $20+K workstations should be things that blend smoothly into an aesthetic, modern office environment, they should be shown off not hidden. I'm all for diminutive, brown & purple pizzaboxes (no smiley). --