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As far as I know, there were only 5 PPro computers that could take >4GB: Axil Northbridge NX801, Data General AV8600, HP NetServer LXr Pro8, NCR Worldmark 4380

As far as I know, there were only 5 PPro computers that could take >4GB: Axil Northbridge NX801, Data General AV8600, HP NetServer LXr Pro8, NCR Worldmark 4380, or Unisys XR/6 Interestingly, while the Intel 450GX chipset was designed to daisy-chain DRAM controllers (1 controller chip per 4GB of RAM), none of the boards that actually could take >4GB used that, instead building their own solutions. Presumably that meant that there was a bug in the chipset. Anyway, each of those 5 computers would have run you at least $500k in 1998. (I've been on-and-off trying to acquire one of those boxes for a few years now.)

trentnelson 2y ago
Had fun googling those system names. NX801: https://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/axil/axil.nx801.es.pdf https://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/axil/axil.nx8... 200 9.1GB SCSI disks for 1.8TB! And still only 4GB RAM on that SQL Server 6.5 box they used for TPC-C. Wild. And yeah, $770k for that server. Edit: I guess whilst I'm at it... Data General AV8600: https://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/dg/dg.8600.es.pdf https://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/dg/dg.8600.es... HP NetServer LXr Pro8: https://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/hp/netserverlxrpor8.pdf https://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/hp/netserverlxrpor8.pdf