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- From: r_voisey@kiwi.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.110502.15344@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:05:02 GMT
- References: <21080@acorn.co.uk> <1jm1a7INNca@oak47.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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- In article <1jm1a7INNca@oak47.doc.ic.ac.uk>, ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
-
- |> >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.
- |>
- |> 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
-
- You're quite right. They said that developers couldn't use it, presumably
- because they wanted it all to themselves. Very sociable company is Acorn.
-
- |> In another of these releases (the one about the PC card), what I
- |> really don't understand is : what's new?
-
- It's available on an A3000/30x0/4000 mini podule. This is a NICE piece
- of design - full marks to Aleph-1. The thing the Acorn release managed
- not to mention was that it's going to be bundled with A30x0s, thus
- accomodating customers who can't make up their mind between a PC and
- an Arch (ie customers who haven't actually used a PC).
-
- Cheers
-
- Bob
-
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