Re: And you thought Apple II users were screwed by Apple...

[David Orriss Jr <daorriss@my-deja.com>]

On 4 Sep 99 13:43:47 GMT, david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson) wrote:

>You forget what IBM did with the IBM PC/AT. This ran at 6MHz but the crystal
>was socketed and people found it would run at 8MHz. IBM changed the BIOS to
>not boot if the clock speed was higher that standard. Then people came out
>with a new clock circuit that started out at 6MHz and ramped up to 8MHz after
>the BIOS code had been run.

And this *still* goes on today.  Now motherboard vendors (at Intel's
encouragement) are starting to release hardware that can't be
'overclocked'...  And the only real reason why is that Intel can't
sell faster chips if people are speeding up the chips themselves.

Don't get me wrong.. I know overclocking can be a dangerous practice,
but if someone wants to fry their equipment, who's business is it to
stop them...  I say, let the fireworks begin..!  :-)


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