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Re: Plan for Athena 9.0 and GX150
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Long)
Tue Feb 27 20:41:39 2001
Message-ID: <007001c0a127$bb290cc0$43029812@GUTTENBERG>
From: "Phillip Long" <longpd@MIT.EDU>
To: "Bill Cattey" <wdc@mit.edu>, <release-team@mit.edu>, <owls@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:42:36 -0500
Dear Bill: I've spoken with Susan twice since your message last night. I
told her that the process we've had to go through to get this box was
horrific, and after receiving it still isn't accurate. I further said we'd
likely be sampling other vendor products based on this experience, not as an
isolated incident but as a pattern that takes too much time and energy to
keep on track.
Next question: what other platform(s) do you want to sample? You mentioned
Gateway in your voice mail. Are there a few more that we should look at?
E.g., Micron (usually a performance leader); others?
Re: who's going to do the integration: since the integration was supposed to
be done by Dell, why not we ask Dell to have someone come out and put the
parts in place here that they couldn't put in place in the original factory
order? I don't think anyone has the time and no one should have to do the
build that we ostensibly pay the vendor for in a custom order. Am I missing
something?
phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Cattey" <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: <release-team@MIT.EDU>; <owls@MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:26 PM
Subject: Plan for Athena 9.0 and GX150
> Ok, the GX 150 arrived today.
>
> Without the NVIDIA video we require.
> Without the Sound card and mouse I requested.
> As you can imagine, there are silouettes on the wall from where
> I detonated about that.
>
> Since it's a week for Dell to cook up the custom build of the right thing,
> I have instead instructed them to send us separate add on cards:
> For the NVIDIA video.
> For the standard sound upgrade.
>
> Here is my suggestion:
>
> Someone volunteers to be the Linux/GX150 integrator.
> That person gets the machine, and the cards when they come.
> That person determines:
> Yes, the GX150 will work with Athena 9.0
> Yes, the NVIDIA is the right video to ship.
> The sound we should specify is:
> the onboard AC97
> the Turtle Beach stock upgrade
> the Sound Blaster that Dell would have to custom integrate.
>
> When that determination is made, I get wjfitz to pay for what we received,
> and to place an order for 5 more.
>
> Does this plan sound reasonable?
>
> Who is going to be the GX150 integrator?
>
> -wdc
>
