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by xuhu 1439 days ago
Are you paying Intel $18 per month for your extra cores ?
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thrtythreeforty 1439 days ago
No, although IBM did the same thing with mainframes, and yes customers did make a phone call to unlock some extra hardware. Or pay per instruction executed. IBM had lots of creative ways to charge for mainframes.
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