Re: Novice questions

Path: emory!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!convex!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!rock!mcnc!rbdc!andy From: andy@rbdc.wsnc.org (Andy Pitts) Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1992Feb21.072652.11716@rbdc.wsnc.org> Date: 21 Feb 92 07:26:52 GMT References: <1992Feb12.194537.15375@cs.wayne.edu> Organization: Red Barn Data Center Public Access Unix, Winston-Salem, NC. While we are asking novice questions here I have one. Why should there be a different price for Informix products based on the clock speed of the cpu. How can their software know if it is on a 25 mHz 386 or a 33 mHz 386. Is there any difference in the software whatsoever. Or are they just cleaning up on people with faster machines? -- Andy Pitts : "The giant Gorf was hit in one eye by a stone, Domain: andy@rbdc.wsnc.org : and that eye turned inward so that it looked UUCP: ...mcnc!rbdc!andy : into his mind and he died of what he saw there." : --_The Forgotten Beast of Eld_, McKillip--