michael@ewa.cs.ucla.edu (michael gersten) (03/26/91)
I am looking at getting a used cube, or a new slab. What I was wondering was, could I buy a few used 030 boards from someone's upgrade to a 40, and plug it into the cube? My thoughts are: $2600 used cube $ 300 used 030 board $ 150 spare floppy :-) ------ $3150 Usable system with the power of a 040 board (I have a spare 54 meg disk partition for a swap disk, if I can figure out how to tell NeXT to only use part of a disk). Compared to $3300 for a 105 meg 040, this is reasonable; addmittedly, both will need a new hard drive later, but this way I save another $150, and get two CPU's. So, the questions are: 1. Are two 030's as powerful as an 040? 2. Does Next Mach support two cpu's? 3. Does the hardware? 4. If I do this, will I be able to use ** all 4 serial ports on both boards ** (this is the biggest thing for me; SCSI serial ports are not cheap, and 2 is not enough) Please reply by mail; I do not read this group reliably.
dc4f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Crimmins) (03/27/91)
you all remember that you're supposed to send those '030 boards back to next, right?? as part of the upgrade deal, the old '030 boards become the property of next computer, and are to be returned. if there are old '030 boards floating around, i would think these would be considered stolen property of some sort. PLEASE, do not consider ripping off next by keeping your '030 boards!! they really do have uses for them, and i can't believe people are able to brush aside their ethics enough to keep something that's not theirs. just my 2 cents...