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- From: gary@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Gary Oehlert)
- Subject: Re: Is the Alpha 3000(400/500) board upgradable?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.150608.14017@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov17.200730.11217@sol.UVic.CA> <1992Nov18.154130.22416@PA.dec.com> <1992Nov18.232048.29205@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:06:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.232048.29205@sol.UVic.CA>, zapantis@uvphys.phys.uvic.ca (Nik Zapantis) writes:
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- |> In article <1992Nov18.154130.22416@PA.dec.com>, rjones@wsl.dec.com (Russ Jones) writes:
- |> >
- |> |>Nik,
- |> |>
- |> |>The DEC 3000 AXP Workstations are "classic" single-board computers.
- |> |> There are no CPU daughtercards. However, rest assured that these
- |> |>workstations will be upgradeable over time through many iterations
- |> |> of faster Alpha performance levels.
- |> |>
- |> |>--
- |> |>Russ Jones
- |> |>UNIX Marketing
- |> |>Digital Equipment Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
- |> |>All opinions expressed are mine, and not necessarily those of my employer
- |> |>
- |>
- |> Should I read the above answer as a 'yes' to my question? Will DEC offer a
- |> "classic" single-board upgrade for these systems?
- |> One of the selling points of HP, IBM and now SUN, is that board upgrades will
- |> be offered as new/faster CPUs become available.
- |> I sure hope DEC does not choose to be different.
- |>
- |> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- |> | Nik Zapantis | zapantis@uvphys (BITNET) |
- |> | Dept. of Physics & Astronomy | 45393::zapantis(HEPnet/SPAN) |
- |> | University of Victoria | zapantis@uvphys.phys.UVic.CA |
- |> | Victoria, BC | Phone: (604)721-7729 |
- |> | V8W 3P6 | FAX: (604)721-7715 |
- |> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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- Remember all those upgrades we were promised for our DECstations???
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