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?

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