Re: RE: "TigerTools Says It Can Remove OS/400 Governors"

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Ok enough already! If you are willing to run your mission critical
applications on a system that is one ptf away from failure go for it.
IBM will not let this go until it is in their best interest to do so.

Several hundred e-mail messages stating opinion will not move us any
further along!

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> >I can't think of any consumer product that you can buy that is
simply a
> >governed version of it's bigger more expensive brother.
> >just imagin if Pc manufacturers did this.
>
> They do.  That's why I can overclock my PIII 866 to 933.  MB
supports
> either, Intel makes chips and stamps 866 on some and 933 on others.
They
> have a number of price points to meet, and choose to simplify
production and
> meet them arbitrarily.  They even lock down some cpu's so they can't
be
> overclocked.  It's my chip, why can't I run it as fast as I want?
>
> I can remember Decision Data line printers that were sold as 300
lpm, that
> had a jumper the salesman told you about that when removed made them
600
> lpm.  Just a two inch piece of wire.
>
> Why is it that I can get my car reprogrammed for more HP and/or
Torque.  Why
> didn't the manufacturer enable all of it?  He had reasons,
emissions, making
> one engine to close to the next higher in performance etc.
>
> I wish IBM priced green screen jobs the same as client server, but
if the
> market lets them get away with the practice they'd be foolish not to
do it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@bvstools.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 9:53 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: "TigerTools Says It Can Remove OS/400 Governors"
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