Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ur-valhalla!dela
From: dela@canopus.ee.rochester.edu (Del Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Summary: Another artificially slow computer
Message-ID: <1798@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 89 15:46:18 GMT
References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <532@geovision.UUCP> <4575@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Sender: usenet@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu
Reply-To: dela@ee.rochester.edu (Del Armstrong)
Organization: UR Dept. of Electrical Engg, Rochester NY 14627
Lines: 28

In article <532@geovision.UUCP> geovision!pt writes:
>
>2) We had an IBM cluster controller controlling some 3270 terminals.  We
>paid $5000 for an upgrade that would allow more users to be connected to
>the controller.  The IBM service rep came in and REMOVED a board, that
>was put there to deliberately slow things down.

	Another unverified bit of folklore: I've heard several times that
	the Vax 11/750 had a delay loop in the microcode, to insure that it
	would run slower than the Vax 11/780.

	Any DEC microcoders out there who can authoritativly put this legend
	to rest?


			Del Armstrong

	Internet    : dela@ee.rochester.edu
	UUCP        :     ...allegra!rochester!ur-valhalla!dela
	Twisted pair: (716) 275-5342
	Last resort : Hopeman 407
		      Electrical Engineering
		      University of Rochester
		      Rochester, N.Y.  14627

    +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
    |  For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.        |
    +---------------------------------------------------------------------+