hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) (01/12/89)
In article <8731@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) writes: >This DECstation 3100 sounds nice -- $12K for a diskless 14 MIPS node. >My gut reaction: I *want* one. > Just attended the local announcement Tuesday, here's what I know/was told. MIPS R2000 CPU + R2010 FPU, 16.67Mhz (~10 MIPS) 64Kb data cache, 64Kb instr cache 4-24Mb memory in 4Mb increments 1024x864 (1 or 8 plane) 19" monitor 1 internal 332Mb or 104Mb SCSI drive (optional) external SCSI port external TK50Z SCSI streaming tape (optional) Ethernet (thin & thick) Includes: Ultrix-32 (Posix, X/Open, OSF, X11, SVID compliant) NFS DECwindows (X windows) XUI, UIL, programmer's style guide TCP/IP optimizing C compiler DECnet/Ultrix (optional) prices: $12K base upto $43K fully loaded Very nice. Also announced were: DECstation 210 (Tandy 286, 10Mhz, ~2.5K) DECstation 316 (Tandy 386, 16Mhz, ~3.5K) DECstation 320 (Tandy 386, 20Mhz, ~5.0K) VAXstation 3100 (improved VS3200 in a smaller box, ~8K upto 28K) VAXstation 3520/3540 (2 or 4 processor (SMP), 8 or 24 bitplanes, 3D geom engine, ~7 or ~14 MIPS, $ TBA, very nice!!) John Hascall ISU Comp Center Ames, Iowa 50011 p.s. All prices quoted are "list", your bargaining power may vary... :-)