DECstation 5000/260 ("4MAX+" ) |
HOSTNAME | ALTOR |
SYSTEM CPU | MIPS R4400SC @60 MHz (CPU internal clock 120 MHz) |
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 havn't seen a *real* high-end 3D graphics board from the
beginning
of the 90's, then I suggest you take a look at the pictures of it! It has
six
huge video SIMMs, one RAMDAC chip and ASIC chip per color channel and
even
an extra Intel 80860 CPU, probably for the hardware acceleration. This
cool
graphics board cost about $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, 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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Last updated: | 2-1-2007 |