On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 21:17:29 -0800, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> 
wrote:

<snip>
>
>Reminds me of a story my dad told me about an electronics company in the
>70's.  He said they only made 200V diodes but also marked them as 100V,
>50V, 20V, and 10V - each less expensive as the voltage "dropped".
>That's marketing I guess.
>
<endsnip>

Just like buying a z CPU and only paying for the number (and capacity) of CPU's 
actually turned on via microcode.  Things never change!

Dana

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