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- From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
- Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.131215.13435@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
- References: <1jm1a7INNca@oak47.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.121746.19679@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1013@rook.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 13:12:15 GMT
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- In article <1013@rook.ukc.ac.uk> mre@ukc.ac.uk (Mike) writes:
- >I would assume that Acorn has fitted one of these "silicon ID" chips
- >to the new machines, and it is this and this alone which sets the
- >"machine number".
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- You are right. The Acorn press release was incorrect in referring to a
- unique ID number stored "in the OS ROMs". (I checked with Acorn)
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- Simon
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