chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (10/22/88)
In article <10249@cup.portal.com> bcase@cup.portal.com (Brian Case) writes: >(... I still remember when someone at UofI increased the performance of >our Vax 780s by 20%: he enabled the margin testing mode of the processor. >Unfortunately, all the clocks ran 20% faster too! "Jeeze, its midnight >already?"). Actually, it is more like 10%: `>>>SET CLOCK FAST'. On the 8600, you can `SET CLOCK FREQ 64' (MHz). (The normal 8600 clock frequency is 40 MHz. Your machine may become unreliable at higher rates. Ours breaks around 58 MHz....) Chris -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris