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0 pointsttt05y ago0 comments

Until today I was convinced that not breaking your products was just an industry standard.

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rrss5y ago

nope, hardware vendors have been introducing artificial restrictions in some products for market segmentation for decades

e.g. ECC support in CPUs, mods to turn radeon into firegl / geforce into quadro, fused off cores

486 DX versus SX, wasn't it? That was my childhood intro.

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0 pointsttt05y ago0 comments

Until today I was convinced that not breaking your products was just an industry standard.

rrss5y ago

nope, hardware vendors have been introducing artificial restrictions in some products for market segmentation for decades

e.g. ECC support in CPUs, mods to turn radeon into firegl / geforce into quadro, fused off cores

486 DX versus SX, wasn't it? That was my childhood intro.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse