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To: dumbmoney who wrote (71927)	1/23/1999 9:33:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

dumbmoney - Re: " I mean, no end users have ever asked for this..." SURE - I suppose you surveyed all 247,732,846 users of PCs and concluded that none of them have asked for this feature. When did you do this survey - over lunch last Friday ? Why don't you read what some credible industry sources (that you must have overlooked during your marathon survey) are saying: techweb.com " For companies that sell into corporate networking environments, the ID is a long-awaited relief. "We had dreamed of having a 'serial number' on the motherboard," Abbott said. Previous efforts to tack some kind of unique identification to a PC, through hardware or even through the operating system, had come up empty-"Intel is the only one that could make this happen," Abbott said. " Paul