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From: bobd@ihf1.UUCP (Bob Dietrich)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Ethics of crippler circuitry
Message-ID: <532@ihf1.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 89 18:03:46 GMT
References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <11630010@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <1257@raspail.UUCP> <132@aucis.UUCP> <751@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: bobd@ihf1.UUCP (Bob Dietrich)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
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A mainframe computer I worked on at one time had a switch to change it from a
slower to a faster model (at least 20%). Customers weren't supposed to know
about it, but word leaked out and the machine was run in the faster mode.
That is, until the mainframe company's CE came out to do maintenance, noticed
that the diagnostics were running faster than normal, and refused to work on
the machine since we weren't licensed for the upgrade. The machine went back
to the slower speed. BTW, this was not at Intel.

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