It has six huge video SIMMs, one RAMDAC chip + one VLSI ASIC chip per color channel (?) and even an Intel 80860 CPU, for 3D acceleration. The price for this cool graphics board used to be around $12,000 (back in '92).
DECstation 5000/260 ("4MAX+" ) |
| HOSTNAME | ALTOR |
| SYSTEM CPU | MIPS R4400SC @60 MHz (CPU internal
clock 120
MHz) KN05 V2.1k |
| CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I) | 1 MB, 16 KB / 16 KB |
| RAM | 480 MB (Max. 480 MB) |
| SYSTEM BUS WIDTH | 32 bit |
| SCSI BUS | 1 x SCSI-2 (5 MB/s) |
| OPTION BUS | 3 x TurboChannel slots running @25MHz |
| GRAPHICS | PMAG-F 96-plane 1280x1024 @66Hz |
| HARD DISK DRIVE | 9.1 GB 7200 RPM (in external BA42 box) |
| CD-ROM DRIVE | DEC RDD42 SCSI-1 2x (in external BA42 box) |
| NETWORK | 10 Mbps AUI (onboard ethernet) |
| OS | ULTRIX V4.5 |
| YEAR | 1993 |
| SPEED | 92 VAX MIPS |
| COMMENTS | ULTRIX on this machine is very fast. The OS boots up in less than a minute. Useable with X11. The graphics board is very cool, it takes up 3 TC slots. |
| ESTIMATED PRICE '93 (excl.
modern SCSI disk) |
$70,000 (or even more, because high-end
DECstations
came with about 32MB RAM, and this system has maximum amount of RAM) |
Ultrixboot - V4.5 Thu Sep 14 07:07:42 EDT 1995 Loading 3/rz2/vmunix ... Sizes: text = 1361568 data = 211648 bss = 637808 Starting at 0x80030000 ULTRIX V4.5 (Rev. 47) System #1: Fri Jan 1 01:26:17 EET 1999 real mem = 134217728 avail mem = 116400128 using 3276 buffers containing 13418496 bytes of memory DECstation 5000 Model 260 KN05 Processor - system rev 64 16Kb Primary Instruction Cache, 16Kb Primary Data Cache 1024Kb Secondary Cache cpu0 ( version 4.0, implementation 4 ) fpu0 ( version 0.0, implementation 5 ) HBA 'PMAZ-BA ' and DME 'PMAZ-BA ' attached on Controller 0. asc0 at ibus3 rz2 at asc0 slave 2 (IBM DNES-309170W SAH0) rz5 at asc0 slave 5 (DEC RRD42 (C) DEC 1.4a) ln0 at ibus3 ln0: DEC LANCE Ethernet Interface, hardware address: 08:00:00:00:00:00 scc0 at ibus3 px0 at ibus1 pq0 (5x2 24+24+24+24 128KB) Sun Nov 16 18:09:32 EET 2003 |
Later, the year 2001, I acquired a PMAG-F graphics board for the
machine.
If you haven't seen a *real* high-end 3D graphics board from the
beginning
of the 90's, then I suggest you take a good look:
It has six
huge video SIMMs, one RAMDAC chip + one VLSI ASIC chip per color
channel (?) and
even
an Intel 80860 CPU, for 3D acceleration. The price for this
cool
graphics board used to be around $12,000 (back in '92).
The amount of installed memory has changed since I captured that boot log. In the end of 2003 around Christmas time I bought some more RAM for this system, so I could fill it up to maximum. Hereby the "circle is closed". It's the best equipped, top-of-the-line DECstation system I could possibly have (without taking such special tricks like TurboChannel Extension option into consideration). This box has more than 10 times more RAM than most High-End workstation systems had at that time (1993) and it also has a very advanced 3D accelerator taking the time frame into consideration. In other words; Cool!
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