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crippleware
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. 1. [common] Software that has some important functionality deliberately
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removed, so as to entice potential users to pay for a working version. 2.
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[Cambridge] Variety of guiltware that exhorts you to donate to some charity
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(compare careware , nagware ). 3. Hardware deliberately crippled, which can
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be upgraded to a more expensive model by a trivial change (e.g., cutting a
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jumper). An excellent example of crippleware (sense 3) is Intel's 486SX
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chip, which is a standard 486DX chip with the co-processor diked out (in
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some early versions it was present but disabled). To upgrade, you buy a
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complete 486DX chip with working co-processor (its identity thinly veiled by
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a different pinout) and plug it into the board's expansion socket. It then
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disables the SX, which becomes a fancy power sink.
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