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Subject: Re: To Slater Wold == 2x1.73Ghz cost US$????

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 16:11:51 08/15/02

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On August 15, 2002 at 15:10:00, Yen Art Tham wrote:

>On August 15, 2002 at 07:42:06, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On August 15, 2002 at 02:45:16, Stuzzi Kadent wrote:
>>
>>>Slater, I think you are overestimating the price by overspecifying and counting
>>>things the guy would not need for his stated purpose. I am sure he doesn't need
>>>a lot of what you have in your own system. One thing I am curious about is why
>>>the need for so much memory and SCSI disks also. If it is to do with tablebases,
>>>does your main program read them from disk or can it load them into memory, or
>>>is either to do with another task primarily.
>>
>>Why not?
>>
>>>I guess the job could be done closer to $1000 with savvy and cutting exorbitant
>>>codpiece-filling specifications down.
>>
>>I doubt it.  2 CPUs + motherboard + memory + shipping and you're at $1,000.  You
>>still need a case, floppy drive, etc, etc.
>
>
>Slater, Are your RAM memory registered?

Yes.

>Can unregistered memory be used?

No.



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