eht+@cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer) (02/08/91)
Another thing that I presume you are paying for when you buy memory from NeXT is their quality assurance testing. I presume this is worth something but don't know the failure rates of SIMM's to be sure. I DO know that we haven't had any memory failures with "NeXT memory", but have with other memory.
shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) (02/11/91)
eht+@cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer) writes: >Another thing that I presume you are paying for when you buy memory from NeXT >is their quality assurance testing. I presume this is worth something but >don't know the failure rates of SIMM's to be sure. I DO know that we haven't >had any memory failures with "NeXT memory", but have with other memory. Well, since NeXT doesn't make memory chips, those they install are provided by others meeting NeXT specifications. Yes, despite claims to the contrary, memory is *not* a commodity. I'd certainly be interested to know who supplies the memory and if there are any specifications peculiar to that provided to NeXT. ----------- uunet!media!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake shwake@rsxtech