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- From: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 11:27:03 -0000
- Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- In article <21080@acorn.co.uk> bsalter@acorn.co.uk writes:
- >Acorn Announces
- >Integrated Software Suite
- .
- .
- .
- >Acorn Advance uses the Acorn software protection scheme whereby a code in
- >the operating system ROMs which is unique to each individual machine is
- >checked by the software allowing it to be licensed for designated machines.
-
- Eh?
-
- Is this different to the unique machine ID in newer machines? Is it
- something new to RO3.1?
-
- I thought someone stated recently that Acorn themselves states that
- software manufacturers weren't to use the unique machine ID for
- protection (or something like that, if memory serves). So is this a
- new machine ident in ROM so that if you do get a replacement machine
- you can simply transfer the roms accross and be able to use the
- software.
-
- ALSO:
-
- In another of these releases (the one about the PC card), what I
- really don't understand is : what's new?
-
- It says, basically, the the 'NEW' Acorn PC card IS the Aleph-1 PC
- card, which has been on sale for ages - so what is this press release
- all about ???
-
- Ian
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