Re: how is system geared down?

["Alexei Pytel" <pytel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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