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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by jaden on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:00AM (#19846426)
A former employer had mainframes that weren't permitted to run at full capacity without paying even more. They were so entrenched they paid IBM thousands of dollars whenever they exceeded their allotment.
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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by cr0sh on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @01:10PM (#19851352)
At one time IBM (and probably other manufacturers) installed RAM and hard drive capacity, but didn't enable it. If you wanted more capacity, they sent out an engineer to basically "flip a switch" (more or less). You always had that ability, but not until they enabled it.

We kinda see something similar today with Tesla - and we'll probably see more of it in the future.

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