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To: grok who wrote (71944)	1/25/1999 11:06:00 AM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (1) of 186894

I think that there are many possible uses of the serial number and up toward the top of the list would be copy protection of software. So if you want the latest 3D game you go to a website, give them your credit card number, and your Pentium III sends them its serial number which gets embedded somewhere in the middle of the executeable that they send you back. That executeable will now only run on your PC. That's pretty straight forward so far. But it gets interesting if you ask what happens if you have an earlier Pentium or even more interesting if you have and K6 or other non-Intel processor. That's easy. The non-PIII users don't suffer the indignities of Intel's newest "feature". Because of KNI there will be at least two versions anyhow (since you were talking games).

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