[bayindirh]

> Both were artificially capped at 64MB of fast RAM, as they were late Pentium chipsets, and Intel rather wanted to sell the then-new Pentium II chips and chipsets if you wanted to have more memory.

Intel being Intel, back then and now.

[rasz]

Intel always used ram for market segmentation. First to drop Parity support on all but the high end components. Cacheable ram limits on all but the high end components. Trying to monopolize ram with 1996 Rambus deal. Locking ram/fsb multipliers on all but the high end components. It was one of their go to Enshittification knobs.