blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") (10/27/89)
This is in responce to a message I got from an SGI employee. I was so annoyed by his pat "recorded" responce, I deleted it before replying. I don't even remember who sent the mail. NO, SGI's pricing does not make sence. Why should we pay SGI $22,000 for 24Mb of memory and have only a 90 day warranty, when we can buy the same amount of memory from someone else for less than $6000 and get a lifetime replacement garantee? Why should we pay SGI twice as much for a disk and get a 90 day warranty when we can get a year warranty? Your 'broken record' excuses are meaningless. -- Brent
mccalpin@masig3.masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) (10/31/89)
In article <8910301436.AA16360@lerc08.lerc.nasa.gov> fsfacca@LERC08.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) writes: >"Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854" <blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov> writes: >> NO, SGI's pricing does not make sence. Why should we pay SGI >> $22,000 for 24Mb of memory and have only a 90 day warranty, when >> we can buy the same amount of memory from someone else for less than >> $6000 and get a lifetime replacement garantee? > ^^^^^ >Brent, >Your point is well taken. However, you exaggerate. You can buy the same >amount of memory from Clearpoint for around $4000. :-) >Tony Facca | phone: 216-433-8318 Does anyone know what speed is required for the SIMM's in a Personal IRIS 4D/20 and 4D/25? For the NeXT machine, it is possible to find 1 MB 100 ns page-mode SIMM's for under $100! Since the 4D/20 is only running at 12.5 MHz and the NeXT is running at 25 MHz, the memory speed should be comparable (assuming that the Motorola chip is running on a multi-cycle memory access scheme). -- John D. McCalpin - mccalpin@masig1.ocean.fsu.edu mccalpin@scri1.scri.fsu.edu mccalpin@delocn.udel.edu