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Originally Posted by id10t
IBM used to license CPUs on their mainframes that way... we could only use 1/2 the CPU cycles available on our old system (moved to Linux on PPC, then Linux on x86/amd64)
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No used to…
They just change the definition every few years.
Its cheaper to make and ship the same full Monty machine to everyone and cap it than send someone out every time you want an upgrade.