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From: don@gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Yet Another Upgrade Anecdote
Message-ID: <1161.263f4987@gp.govt.nz>
Date: 2 May 90 09:35:33 GMT
References: <43777@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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On the subject of "upgrade by jumper"...

I seem to recall a rumour floating around a few years ago, that a VAX
11/750 could be sped up by a factor of four by changing a couple of
resistors.  It sounds rather unlikely, but the story went it couldn't be
faster than the 11/780 that since the machine was to be a low-end one and 
cheaper; this being despite the somewhat better technology involved.

DEC's pricing structures were always a mystery to me, particuarly in the 
mid-80s ... they would not discount an aging machine; instead they would 
introduce a new machine with a higher bang for buck.  


Don Stokes (ZL2TNM)   /  /                              PSI%(5301)47000028::DON
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   Given any problem containing N equations, there will be N + 1 unknowns.