On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
BS> For example, Panasonic makes a voice mail system that comes in a two-port
BS> version and a four-port version. The difference is the license key. And the
BS> price tag. And they put a sticker labeled "DO NOT USE" over ports three and
BS> four on
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> I read an article somewhere about this, and the only reason they didn't
> was because it would have been cost-prohibitive to rip out the SMP core.
That is true, but they still could have come up with a more sophisticated
way to do it, without a big pri
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> I actually think Intel did us a favor with this one. They could easily have
> developed a more sophisticated method of disabling SMP on the Celery, but they
> didn't. Maybe there are a few friendly engineers somewhere inside Intel.
I read an artic
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> There's nothing preventing a Celeron from proper SMP out of the box other
> than Intel's greed -- the workaround is simple for both types of
> processors.
It is standard practice in many industries to charge "high-end" customers
more to subsidize "low-
