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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (74028)	2/19/1999 8:37:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tenchu, Have you ever heard of the 'thin edge of the wedge'?, it refers to an initial position that is just a small change, and we can live with that, and then it increments, again by a small amount, and again, and eventually you are wedged in tight. One fine day you might find that if you buy a new faster CPU you will have to entertain a dialog with all the vendors whose software notices the CPU serial number has changed and you will have to get on the phone or web and waste time. same for hard drive changes when the signature file changes, same for a re-format, etc. The big push is to have a built in dongle in every machine that software can be hard wired to, like the dongles out the back of many machines now. As with all things the Intel stated reason is camouflage. How many counterfeit chips are made?...near zero. remarked CPUs to a higher speed can be revealed by written data on the chip already. Intel= big satan Bill