On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:18:08 -0500, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM, George Henke <gahe...@gmail.com> 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? > Exactly. Didn't we have this discussion a couple of weeks ago? Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:mzel...@flash.net Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
