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Prince Opteron unloads on AMD, Intel and the future of memory

John Stoffel

Wow, remembering the Encore Multimax... 

Wow, this brings me back. My school brought in an Encore Multimax to reaplce a DEC-20 as the general computer for the school. 20 processors, 64mb of RAM. A real screamer! Cost us $250k at the time.

I helped move it in and it worked well with a bunch of DECstation 3100s as the front ends, replacing VT100/220s.

Three years later, we ditched it for $25k... talk about depreciation!

It was a pretty decent machine, watching compiles fly by with 'make -j 8' was cool.

John