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Chris, IBM could use you... And this was SO good...! Hope you don't mind how I re-phrased it a little...: "The PC world has a governor sitting on today's warp-speed hardware. You license it from Microsoft." jt > -----Original Message----- > From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com > [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Chris Rehm > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:59 PM > To: midrange-l@midrange.com > Subject: Re: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero > > > On Friday 09 November 2001 10:45 am, jt wrote: > > Chris, > > > > I have only one question: why aren't you working for IBM's marketing > > division...?!? Why doesn't the iNation hire you...?!? > > Well, if IBM hired me and I knew what their margin on the 400 really was, > I'm pretty sure I'd be just as avid with them about shaving the margin to > be more attractive in the market. I'm sure they'd get just as tired of my > emails as Don does. > > > BTW, if I understand right, Intel DOES exactly that, because I've seen > > discussion on the merits of "over-clocking" the CPU, in PC rags. > > Yes, you are right. But it has long, long irked me that the PC world has > always rated computers based on CPU speed. There are so many > other factors, > even if all you want to look at is the hardware performance. Then > when they > buy the hardware they pour a wretched batch of molasses operating > system on > it. > > In the PC world there is a CFINT as well. But you have to license it from > Microsoft. > > > jt > > -- > Chris Rehm > javadisciple@earthlink.net > > And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart... > ...Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other > commandment greater than these. Mark 12:30-31 > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) > mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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