david@ics.com (08/10/90)
I just saw the Sun IPC for the first time at Siggraph; it's very nice, despite the unfortunate overloaded name choice. The color monitor appears large enough to work with. The Sun salesman mentioned that the GX card will work with the IPC, but it is not offered as an option. The card alone, however, is expensive enough to make an SS1+/GX possibly a better choice. The processor is the one in the SS1+. I wasn't able, though, to get an answer on the RAM capacity from him or from my local sales guy. The spec sheet mentions that the IPC comes with 8MB and is expandable to 12MB with 1MB SIMMs and 24MB with 4MB SIMMs. There are three banks of four slots. It seems that these numbers assume that the original 8MB of 1MB SIMMs are kept and that a single bank of 1MB or 4MB is added. Do you expect that I could replace the original two banks of 1MB SIMMs with 4MB SIMMs and have 48MB or replace one bank and have 36MB? (In general, on the SPARC systems, can one replace the first bank of 4MB with four 4MB SIMMs?) I am considering this machine as an alternative for use in developing an application which currently runs on an SS1 with two banks of 1MB and two banks of 4MB and need to ensure that I won't be limited. Thanks in advance. PS: thanks also to the folks who responded to my question on the capabilities of the 4/330. It does appear that it won't be able to satisfy our needs for long, and we will look elsewhere.
jms@tardis.tymnet.com (Joe Smith) (09/13/90)
In article <1990Aug13.011523.6370@rice.edu> david@ics.com writes: >I just saw the Sun IPC for the first time at Siggraph; it's very nice, >despite the unfortunate overloaded name choice. That was not a Sun IPC; it was a SPARCstation IPC. Sun IPC = plug-in card with an Intel 80386, it runs MS-DOS inside your Sun. SPARCstation IPC = Sun-4/40 = midrange SPARC workstation Sun has posted a product announcement here stating that you can throw out all 8 of the standard 1MB SIMMs and insert 12 4MB SIMMs for a total of 48MB. Details are in Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 282, message 2, 25-Jul-90. Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: jms@tardis.tymnet.com or jms@gemini.tymnet.com BT Tymnet Tech Services | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-C51 | BIX: smithjoe | 12 PDP-10s still running! "POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | humorous dislaimer: "My Amiga speaks for me."