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To: Paul Engel who wrote (71933)	1/23/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Previous efforts to tack some kind of unique identification to a PC, through hardware or even through the operating system, had come up empty Ever heard of an IP address? Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (71933)	1/23/1999 10:52:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	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. It should be easy to prove me wrong - all you need is one counterexample. Good luck. :) " 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. " Exactly my point - this is a 'feature' only from the point of view of (some) software developers, not from the point of view of consumers, who are either indifferent to it or hostile to it. I don't see what Intel gets out of this.