This is pretty old news. They want a way for OEM’s to build a single hardware platform for efficiency and sell it at various prices for various performance levels. But they’ll be shooting themselves in the foot if they actually do it. I guarantee some nerd in his mom’s basement will figure out the locking algorithm about 2.21 femtoseconds after the sell the first unit and after that everyone will be buying the Yugo computer and flipping a couple software switches and shazam! it’s now a Porche.
Very old news. The difference between Windows NT 3.51 Workstation, Server, and Advanced Server was a single value in the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ProductOptions\ProductType
Choose values Winnt, Servernt, or Lanmannt.
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