Proprietary hardware
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Proprietary hardware is a piece of hardware which has purposely had hardware compatibility restrictions placed upon it by its vendor in order to execute a vendor lock-in; for example, if company A's motherboard uses a proprietary Accelerated Graphics Port, then only company A's AGP graphics card will work on their motherboards.
[edit] See also
- Vendor lock-in
- Micro Channel architecture, a commonly cited historical example of proprietary hardware
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