[geeks] Eeeek

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Apr 10 19:42:51 CDT 2002


On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:13:57AM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> That fast? Ragge (NetBSD VAX portmaster) told once that they have a full
> blown VAX 8800 with 1/2GB RAM up there in north sweden. The RAM test
> only takes 45 minutes. Usually they bring the machine once a year down
> to replace broken disks. (There are about 5 to 6 dozen connected to that
> machine.) 

Whats sad is that 512 megabytes is no longer a "woah" number.  For that
VAX, yeah.. but I have a gig in at least two machines here. 8-(

Bill (remembers when 1meg SIMMs were $85..)

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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