Re: AS/400

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxx>]

Buck Calabro wrote:
 
> That's why I fail to understand why there's such vitriol about the
> interactive limit.  You paid x amount for x horsepower and you did in fact
> get that horsepower, right?  You don't complain to the modem manufacturer
> that you paid for a 2400 baud modem and you expect the performance of a 56k
> modem, do you?  When I'm plodding along on my Wintel PC and it takes 25
> seconds to open Word 97, I don't complain that my 64meg 266mHz Pentium II
> should be performing like a 256meg 1gHz Athlon.  Am I just too simple to
> comprehend this?

I think the reason people are PO'ed (that's a technical term) about the
CFINT governor is that it is an _artificial_ limit placed purposely by
IBM.  The other limits are (or were) _technological_ limits at the time.

-- 
-Jeff
The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily 
the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
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