[rescue] octane question

[nick at snowman.net]

So you went for the alpha?  Find a deal on the cache?
	Nick

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On January 17, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > >   Well, I suppose if 1600x1280 and one 21" CRT is enough desktop space
> > > for you, that'd be fine.  It doesn't cut it for me.  I only gave up
> > > multihead for all the Meaty Goodness that the Indigo^2 afforded me,
> > > and it was quite a sacrifice.
> > 
> > With the MaxImpact you have, you still should be able to fit in at least one
> > SolidImpact board as well for dual head.  And, if you ever get un-broke again,
> > you can trade up to an Octane MXI with 2 additional SSI heads.
> 
>   But that last slot is taken up by a FDDI interface...I'm not going
> back to 10Mbps.
> 
>   I'm building up an Alpha that might replace my beloved I^2...an
> AlphaPC 164 (500MHz EV5)...I can get a dual-head framebuffer for that
> machine and still have enough slots open for the other stuff I want in
> my main desktop workstation...very fast SCSI, audio, USB, FDDI...I
> just need to find some &#$&^# memory.  (Sridhar?  You find those SIMMs
> yet?)
> 
>      -Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire
> St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
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