Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:39:53 +0000 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: disabling Intel PSN |
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Hi David.
>> I think it's a bad idea to allow it at all. If it's enabled, >> vendors will start using it for generating software licence >> keys; its bad enough that Mac addresses are used for this >> purpose (consider what happens when your server's hardware fails >> and needs to be replaced).
> That's the best reason I've heard so far, and it still doesn't > hold much water. They have to have a fall-back; nobody's going > to voluntarily limit themselves to only running on PIII, and in > that case you just disable the S/N while you're installing the > license.
What I can see is vendors linking their licence key generator to the processor such that a PIII without PSN available can't generate a valid key, and one thus has to downgrade the processor to get one.
Best wishes from Riley.
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