Noob question 727 really low shift points

dartnabout said
My Buddy is having the same problem with an old truck 727. He never ran it but had the transmission rebuilt and when he went back to the transmission guy and said it was out of an old military truck the transmission guy told him they had lower planetary gears. I never heard of such a thing but can it be true?

I would think that a truck, being designed for torque and low end power would shift at higher RPMs to get the most torque out of each gear, but lower gears might lend toward more torque so that's actually pretty weird I think.