Christian wrote:

>Yeah, that's right, all NEWER HP3000s are crippled. Exactly
>since the 918 was introduced, waaaaaaay back in '94, as a
>34-MHz crippled version of the original 48 MHz 928 (a.k.a. E25).
>
>Since HP3000 stopped selling last october, I'm quite baffled
>at the notion of a **NEWER** HP3000. A less ancient one, perhaps ?

As spelled out in writing by HP in their 9/01 edition of
the HP e3000 Servers Configuration Guide:

'The clock speeds of the A400, A500, N4000-100-220, N4000-100-330, 918RX,
929KS/030 and 939KS/030 are affected with software.'

My note:

Keep in mind that newer N4000 systems like the 440, 550, and 750
are NOT slowed down by software as those are the rated speed of
the processor used.

Since the printing of this guide the N4000-xxx-380 systems also
used software to affectively reduce the rated mhz from the native
chip mhz (750mhz) installed in the system.

My .02:

Who cares how they created a system of a particular speed. They can
do it by fabricating a chip at a particular mhz rating or they can
do it by taking a faster already fabbed chip and slowing it down.
It turns out to be a lot cheaper to do it software so that probably
allowed more options to be made available within the limited budget
available to csy.

And please don't mention the a400-110 system. That box was NEVER a 110mhz
system regardless of what HP said. It's actual cpu mhz rating is roughly
55mhz. Timings of the newer a400-150 system show it to be more like 120mhz.
Not as far off as the older 110 model but still a tad short :-)

Sorry for continuing to post technical information. I understand how
everyone is probably missing their 'OT' posts...

duane

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