[ttt0]

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

[rrss]

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

[mancerayder]

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