LSI controllers (adapter cards really no better) for VMS Alpha used to go for a couple thousand list for a retail sub 500 dollar part lavishly upgraded with som

LSI controllers (adapter cards really no better) for VMS Alpha used to go for a couple thousand list for a retail sub 500 dollar part lavishly upgraded with some firmware that ensured the margins remained as high as the system clock on our ES45s. Fifteen years elapsed before we got the same bandwidth inside a Xeon.... I've still got the above mentioned dual 3.GHz boxen in archive because after that failure we copied all the internal data and mothballed them in case. Furloughed a office lot of twenty thousand dollars workstations because of a shoddy poxy consumer grade aic we were probably missold in the first place has we not had the full pr moves made on us to forget that... NDA expired years ago and only said we wouldn't be beastly to Dell who have been transformed since then the better imo though I am still not buying