Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-mpd!Chuck.Phillips From: Chuck.Phillips@FtCollins.NCR.COM (Chuck.Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pirates and swapware Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 90 08:33:36 GMT References: <1990Jun25.104017.803@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <31356@cup.portal.com> <1990Jul4.064216.21027@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <4900@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: uucp@ncr-mpd.FtCollins Distribution: na Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO Lines: 28 In-reply-to: galpin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU's message of 5 Jul 90 03:45:37 GMT >>>>> On 5 Jul 90 03:45:37 GMT, galpin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Knight of the Mystic Sword) said: Knight> I think that this discussion about serial number protection on the Amiga is Knight> quite ridiculous. ... Knight> THERE ARE OVER 1 MILLION AMIGA's OUT THERE WITHOUT SUCH A SCHEME! There's over 1 million Amiga's out there without 68030 accelerators. Yet all can be upgraded at the owner's option, wallet permitting. CALM DOWN! :-) Sheese. You'd think active circuit ID PROMS were some new, unproven technology. It's all been done, folks. And it has been done longer than the Amiga has existed. There are millions of workstations out there employing just such a scheme. Now that there are Amigas with the number crunching abilities of workstations and UNIX around the corner, it just seems apropos that the _option_ of ID PROM based protection should exist on the Amiga. Knight> So.. C= sell a couple million more Amigas.. and maybe we will finally see some Knight> of these companies change their mind. :-) I suspect offering UNIX, a "standard" portable OS, was intended to partially address this very issue. #include -- Chuck Phillips MS440 NCR Microelectronics Chuck.Phillips%FtCollins.NCR.com Ft. Collins, CO. 80525 uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-mpd!bach!chuckp