Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Marketing MIPS
Message-ID: <9654@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 15:43:54 GMT
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <2780@dalcs.UUCP> thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael A. Thompson) writes:
| [...]
| 	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 :-)

 As I recall there was once a system from Heneywell which was billed as
a "timesharing" machine. It would run batch, but slowly. It was quite a
bit cheaper than the general purpose machine.

 In the dispatcher was an instruction which set the priority of batch
jobs lower on that model. Addition of a single NOP would perform an
upgrade, at a cost of thousands of dollars.

 Perhaps someone can remembers the model numbers involved.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me