Re: how is system geared down?

Selling systems with different price and different performance but with the
same CPU chip is not the same as artificially slowing down CPU chip to make
it run slower - like inserting no-ops, as was suggested.


    Alexei Pytel

"Pessimist is nothing but a well-informed optimist"




                                                                                
                   
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I'm having a hard time reconciling the following quotes from your posts,
Alexei:

> From: "Alexei Pytel" <pytel@us.ibm.com>

"I am kind of tired to repeat that system was not
 slowed down."

"faster CPU may still be equipped with a smaller cache which will
 make it run slower"

"IBM installs the same CPU chip in different models
with different componentry - cache, memory, bus...
This different componentry (which has diifferent cost!)
will define an effective speed of a particular model."


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