On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM, George Henke <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is simply incredible, to think that IBM would deliberately run BCT > loops to throttle, slowdown, CPs. > > It is one thing to cut back the CPU cache. It is quite another to > deliberate slow things down. > I thought this debate ended with the 486SX chips. Using your logic, they should offer CPUs in groups of 4, since they're shipping them anyway. Using short words: YOU PAY LESS, YOU GET LESS. What's tricky about that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

