perley@trub (Donald P Perley) (06/28/90)
In article <1990Jun25.201650.12822@tc.fluke.COM>, kurt@tc (Kurt Guntheroth) writes: >It is unfortunate but true that it is not in Commodore (or any hardware >vendor)'s interest to put serial numbers in their machines. It is in the hardware vendors interest if they sell software (OS, compilers, upgrades) separately from the hardware, or if there is a clone of the hardware and they want to force the clone owners to at least buy the OS. Of course they still have to balance anticipated increased sales vs cost of implementation. -don perley perley@trub.crd.ge.com