🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov13.075521.20283@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, weikl@ee3ds1.ilt.fhg.de (Dr.B.Weikl) writes:
|>
|>
|>BTW, does anybody known with which memory the memory of a DEC/3000-500 is compatible? I've heard it would be the same as in a DECstation 5000. Does anybody know the order number of compatible memory?
|>
|>

It is new memory.  Two reasons:

	First, it is ECC and not parity. The only other workstation that
	we've done with ECC was the DECstation 5000/2xx series.

	Second, the memory is addressed in 256-bit (Plus ECC) datapaths, 
	thus some new organization had to be worked out. The DECstation
	5000 memory physically wouldn't deal with that


That's the bad news, now the good news.


The memory for the new systems is priced at $125/MB, which is considerably 
less than memory from Digital only a few weeks ago. In fact, Digital memory
is less expensive than that of a third party who announced their memory
for the DEC 3000 family before we announced the products.  We'll also trade
in memory from a current workstation when you're upgrading to allow you
to protect the investment that you've made in memory for our existing products.


--


William M. Jackson
Workstation Product Marketing Manager
Workstation Engineering
Digital Equipment Corporation
146 Main Street
Maynard, MA 01754

Mail:	Jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com