>On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Geoff Roberts wrote:
>> From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
>> > A VAX with more than 16MB, I'm green! Actually I should finally be
>> getting
>> > one with more than 16MB one of these days soon.
>>
>> Should I mention that my Vax 6000-430 has 256Mb?
>
>Yeah, well my VAX 6000-530 has twice that- 512 MB! Top that! :-)
>
>Richard Schauer
>rws_at_enteract.com
Good Grief! The most any Alpha on my home cluster has is 112MB and my best
Alpha only has 96MB because the RAM is so blasted expensive! I've found
that a Alpha with 80MB is about the same as a VAX with 16MB, and don't even
consider DECwindows in less than 80MB (and you won't see good performance
till 112MB). The 96MB machine is a 21164/333 feels about like the
21064/225 with 112MB under general workstation use (though running a
processor intensive app would be faster). Now if I could just get another
128MB, a 24-bit graphics card, and 100Mbit Ethernet that 21164 would
scream, BUT it would basically be cheaper to just get a newer/better system
:^(
I've not gone after any of the big VAXen I've had a shot at because they'd
take space away from my PDP's :^) Besides I suspect that much RAM is
overkill for a home VAX :^)
Zane
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Received on Wed Mar 22 2000 - 00:52:30 GMT