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- From: rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (D.Pead)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: RISC OS 3 Impression...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.174154.7052@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:41:54 GMT
- References: <Bxo4z3.LD1@cen.ex.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.134447.184@ugle.unit.no> <1992Nov19.155320.13510@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
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- In article <1992Nov19.155320.13510@cs.nott.ac.uk> smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:
- >
- >Why couldn't the unique ID number be incorporated into a removable piece
- >of the computer (like a dongle)? This would get around many of the
- >problems of unique ID numbers, and multiple dongles.
- >
- Apparently the ID chip can be transplanted - When I heard Acorn talking about
- their protection scheme they said that dealers were under instructions
- to swap the ID chips over if they ever had to replace the main board
- on a machine taken in for repairs.
-
- Don't know if this means that the chip is socketed.
-