RAM at the time was costing us a lot; we did look at using 64Mbit chips on the Mk1 and original Mk2, but there seemed to be a 300% disconnect from the price of RAM to the consumer and what we could buy reels of chips for.

Someone, somewhere, was making a pile. I seem to remember that the 12MB on the Mk2 was costing us something like $30, which was daylight robbery, but we needed to be buying in 100,000's to get decent pricing.

We were planning a mk2b as an interim (after 1000 mk2a's) which was going to move to the SA1110; we would have lost some speed (206Mhz vs 221Mhz) but would have moved to 32MB of SDRAM which is a lot cheaper than EDO due to the PC uses. It never happened, as Rio were desparate to make thousands of the original (expensive!) design instead of letting me & Christoph do some cost reduction work on the box.

Hugo