Re: PYXIS machine checks w/ 1.5GB RAM

["Andrei A. Dergatchev" <A Dergatchev tn utwente nl>]

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>
> That's a little much....you make the assumption that these engineering
> have unlimited acess to more hardware than they know what to do with.

Two 512MB dimms isn't equal to "more hardware than Compaq
Alpha engineers know what to do with" in my books, that's all.

> Do
> you know what 512MB DIMMs cost today

Yes. Nearly nil comparing to anything related with high-performance
computing (again, in my books).

Have you ever approached Compaq to buy even nowadays-lowly (imho)
DS20 for University and hear the price they are selling it at ?
Why do I need to think that the guys who are getting such money
for their computers can't afford 2 sticks at around 1000$ ?

> and more importantly what they would
> have cost when the SX was being developed?

Note that I wasn't talking about times when SX was developed.
This discussion is taking place this week, and there was plently
of time to check that since than. As Jay asked *me* if I checked
it myself I surely felt uncertain if it has been ever done.

> I can't speak for inside
> Compaq/DEC but I know I can't just find 512MB DIMMs lying around the
> office....even today.

I thought there is a difference between average "office" and Compaq Alpha
development team.

> Do you think that memory companies just send us
> truck loads of memory for free?

No. I think that Compaq is in business of *engineering* computers,
and if there isn't a single 512MB dimm available to play with. If they don't,
I surely feel sorry for the guys who have to work in such a poor place.

To make clear, I definitely wasn't talking about a secretarisse's office.

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>
> I'm sure plenty of people thought of it....but there's a big difference
> between thinking about it, and finding the hardware to do it.

Yes I agree. It just was mine mistake to think that Compaq Alpha
engineers have some quantity of modern hardware to work with.
If they don't have any, I apologize very much, my mistake, sorry.

>
> --rdp
>
> --
> Rich Payne
> rpayne@alphalinux.org                   www.alphalinux.org
>

Regards,

Andrei