Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!thompson
From: thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael A. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Marketing MIPS
Message-ID: <2780@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 13:50:01 GMT
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Reply-To: thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael A. Thompson)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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In article <1988Feb18.175121.16125@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>No, you slow the thing down to match the ads, then introduce the full-speed
>version later as an upgrade at extra cost!  (Or maybe just quietly bury the
>full-speed version if it interferes with your marketing plans -- there are
>persistent rumors that the original fast version of DEC's wretched PDP11/60
>never saw the light of day.)

	I heard about the CDC upgrade for their Cyber 6600 (I think)
that doubled the speed and cost on the order of $10000, and consisted
of cutting a couple of jumpers and removing a chip. ( I can see the itemized
bill now -- $10000 for knowing which chip to remove :-)
-- 
Michael A. Thompson, Dept. Math, Stats, & C.S., Dalhousie U., Halifax, N.S.
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