Jeff writes:

> I plead laziness for not researching references to my reply, but IBM did
>  the same thing on the AS/400.  You are surcharged on some similarly
>  convoluted basis, but the bottom line is that they supply a "system
>  process" at eats up CPU cycles.  A third party that developed a bypass
>  for it was threatened (at least, may have happened by now) with a suit.
>
>  Perhaps this rings a bell with someone with references, but it's getting
>  late/early in my timezone :-)

Well, it's still relatively early here in the Mountain West :-). The
speed-defeating program is called "Fast400". See:

    http://www.midrangeserver.com/tfh/tfh060302-story03.html

Wirt Atmar

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