From tor@tss.no  Ukn Jun 29 10:21:10 1993
Received: from gossip.pyramid.com by SunSITE.unc.edu (4.1/tas-gen/1-30-93)
	id AA16427; Tue, 29 Jun 93 10:21:06 EDT
Received: from sword.eng.pyramid.com 
	by gossip.pyramid.com (5.61/OSx5.1a Pyramid-Internet-Gateway)
	id AA18017; Tue, 29 Jun 93 07:17:09 -0700
Received: from goss.pyramid.com
	by sword.eng.pyramid.com (5.61/Pyramid_Internal_Configuration)
	id AA13490; Tue, 29 Jun 93 07:17:12 -0700
Received: from benoni.Uit.No 
	by gossip.pyramid.com (5.61/OSx5.1a Pyramid-Internet-Gateway)
	id AA18007; Tue, 29 Jun 93 07:17:04 -0700
Received: from benoni by ppenoni.uit.no with SMTP (PP) 
          id <29457-0@ppenoni.uit.no>; Tue, 29 Jun 1993 16:16:52 +0000
Received: from unas.tss.no 
          by benoni.uit.no (5.65+IDA/Babel-1.15/ABaa-1.2/Ultrix) 
          id AAbenoni29453; Tue, 29 Jun 1993 16:16:49 +0200
Received: by unas.tss.no (4.0/ABaa-1.3mini) id AA10746;
          Tue, 29 Jun 93 16:11:15 +0200
Message-Id: <9306291411.AA10746@unas.tss.no>
From: tor@tss.no (Tor Arntsen)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 16:11:14 +0200
X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92)
To: riscy@pyramid.com
Subject: My wishlist..
Status: RO
X-Status: 

Ok, as everyone now comes up with their wishes, here are my quick ones:

* I want to be able to keep the board for a while, by that I feel that
  some expandability is mandatory.
  The CPU will be limited from the start to a 3081 at best, nothing to
  do here.  But I feel that limiting memory to 64MB max is not a good
  idea.  That means 32 SIMM sockets, right?  Even 128MB may be too
  little after a while, it's sad that the 3730 does not support > 4MB DRAM.
  But I think I can live with the thought of max 128MB.

* If there will be ISA then DMA devices should be on the main board because
  of the 16MB addressing limit of the ISA bus, i.e. SCSI should be
  on the main board (but almost everyone has settled on this anyway?).
  This is just because I feel it is a pity to have to do a CPU copy
  operation after the DMA, that's what DMA was invented for; to avoid
  loading the CPU with the I/O. (I know a memcopy goes quite quick with
  newer CPUs, and I can live with doing this for devices using DMA for
  small small buffers :-)

Just my 0.02 whatever..
Tor (tor@tss.no)

 
From jcallen@Think.COM  Ukn Jun 29 11:24:40 1993
Received: from gossip.pyramid.com by SunSITE.unc.edu (4.1/tas-gen/1-30-93)
	id AA20309; Tue, 29 Jun 93 11:24:38 EDT
Received: from sword.eng.pyramid.com 
	by gossip.pyramid.com (5.61/OSx5.1a Pyramid-Internet-Gateway)
	id AA27737; Tue, 29 Jun 93 08:20:40 -0700
Received: from goss.pyramid.com
	by sword.eng.pyramid.com (5.61/Pyramid_Internal_Configuration)
	id AA21847; Tue, 29 Jun 93 08:20:39 -0700
Received: from Mail.Think.COM 
	by gossip.pyramid.com (5.61/OSx5.1a Pyramid-Internet-Gateway)
	id AA27672; Tue, 29 Jun 93 08:20:30 -0700
Received: from Luna.Think.COM by mail.think.com; Tue, 29 Jun 93 11:19:10 -0400
From: Jerry Callen <jcallen@Think.COM>
Received: by luna.think.com (4.1/Think-1.2)
	id AA13550; Tue, 29 Jun 93 11:19:09 EDT
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 11:19:09 EDT
Message-Id: <9306291519.AA13550@luna.think.com>
To: tor@tss.no
Cc: riscy@pyramid.com
Subject: My wishlist..
Status: RO
X-Status: 

I wrote:

   I presume that people are bearing in mind the COST of this much memory? If
   I could get 4MB SIMMs for, say, $100 a pop (which I can't), 64 megabytes
   would be $6400.

Clearly I hadn't had coffee yet. It's "only" $1600.

My point stands, though.

   -- Jerry Callen
      jcallen@world.std.com           (preferred)
      jcallen@think.com               (OK, too)
      {uunet,harvard}!think!jcallen   (if you must)



 
