If it's relevant, these boomers do not have deliberately crippled AIs. Their processors couldn't run any better AIs than they actually are - someone who took a really good look at them would say they are based on a re-engineered crow brain design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind