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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>crippleware</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cretinous.html" title="cretinous"/><link rel="next" href="critical-mass.html" title="critical mass"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">crippleware</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cretinous.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="critical-mass.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="crippleware"/><dt xmlns="" id="crippleware"><b>crippleware</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common] Software that has some important functionality
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deliberately removed, so as to entice potential users to pay for a working
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version. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Cambridge] Variety of <a href="../G/guiltware.html"><i class="glossterm">guiltware</i></a> that
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exhorts you to donate to some charity (compare
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<a href="careware.html"><i class="glossterm">careware</i></a>, <a href="../N/nagware.html"><i class="glossterm">nagware</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Hardware deliberately crippled, which can be upgraded to a more
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expensive model by a trivial change (e.g., cutting a jumper).</p></dd><dd><p>An excellent example of crippleware (sense 3) is Intel's 486SX chip,
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which is a standard 486DX chip with the co-processor diked out (in some
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early versions it was present but disabled). To upgrade, you buy a
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complete 486DX chip with <span class="emphasis"><em>working</em></span> co-processor (its
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identity thinly veiled by a different pinout) and plug it into the board's
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expansion socket. It then disables the SX, which becomes a fancy power
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sink. Don't you love Intel?</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cretinous.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="critical-mass.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">cretinous </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> critical mass</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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