As recently as five years ago, IBM would do a mainframe deal sort of like this: You get X MIPS available, but only YY% of those MIPS will be turned on with the

As recently as five years ago, IBM would do a mainframe deal sort of like this: You get X MIPS available, but only YY% of those MIPS will be turned on with the option of turning on additional computing power during the period of the deal. There was no pretense that the hardware wasn't already present.