[Info-vax] Graphics cards and monitors, was: Re: VSI Software and Stark Gaming

[Jerry Eckert]

On 8/11/2015 6:59 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

>
> I agree about the mistake, even if your math is off.
> At 14Gpixel, and 1B/pixel, you'll need 1.75Gbyte of memory. A VAX-11/780
> could take (I think) theoretically 512 MByte of memory, so you would
> have had to have 4 machines for it.
> Your math would be right if the machine held just 1Mbyte of memory, but
> I would not have called that a fully loaded VAX-11/780, not even in 1977.
>
>      Johnny
>

The maximum memory in the 11/780 was 4MB in the main cabinet, with an 
additional 4MB if an expansion cabinet was added.

The memory modules were 256KB each, so 512MB would have required 2048 
full-sized modules. The price was around $5-6K/MB, IIRC.

Jerry