Re: Have you read this? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Dave,

IBM has a long history of shipping machines with "full" speed/function
and disablers/cripplers to create a particular model.

To upgrade your system, a jumper was installed to bypass the crippler.

Now adays, it's probably done with software instead of alligator clips
and a piece of wire.

"Shaw, David" wrote:
> 
>  Maybe the FPU's
> are turned off in low-end machines - that would be about par for the way IBM
> screws us over to create their bloody "price points" - but in all models?  
>That
> doesn't seem reasonable.
> 
> Dave Shaw
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