[geeks] Wireless Routers

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> >It's cheaper to buy the same OEM part and sell it at different price
> >points with different features enabled, than to buy N different parts
> >for N different markets.
> 
> The calculator industry was famous for this as well - the number of functions on 
> the calculator was limited by the number of buttons they could cram on the 
> thing. This was true atleast for TI calculators.

Actually it was limited by the number of button they cared to connect for that
model.  I had a student once that didn't have much money and bought a box of
broken calculators for $10.  He cobbled together a functioning, scientific 
calculator from the wreckage.  He found that the calculator companies used the
same basic chip(set) but used only some of the features on the low end units.

Bob