[Info-vax] Alpha Personal Workstation question

[Michael Kraemer]

Mazzini Alessandro schrieb:
> Thanks for the extra infos.

I listed the working RAMs in
http://www.gsi.de/~kraemer/COLLECTION/DEC/pws500.html

> Yep, put that way is a bit strange the self imposed limit to 2gb... unless 
> the idea was : when the client feels the need of more ram, he'll buy a more 
> expensive box from us.

Well, considering all the fuss back then about the Alpha being a
64-bit CPU and thus superior to all others, it would have been
a much better marketing argument if already entry systems
would have allowed to use RAM in excess of 4GB.
Would have attracted more developers and followers.
Of course system design was limited by RAM availability and pricing,
but this means that there was not much differentiation between
32bit and 64bit systems at the bottom line.