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From: jasmerb@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Computer Readible serial number....
Message-ID: <20831@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 8 Oct 90 17:55:09 GMT
References: <46811@cornell.UUCP>
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State Univ.
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In article <46811@cornell.UUCP> (Peter Wayner) writes:
>The Sun computers come with an individual serial number stored in
>EEPROM that is accessible via the operating system calls. This
>makes generating site licenses easier. Does the NeXT machine
>have anything like this?

I don't know how Sun does this because I don't use Suns extensively. I know
that every machine (or board, for that matter) that has an ethernet controller
on it has a unique identification number with the ethernet chip. There are
routines that you can use to find what this id number is. This is true for
Suns, NeXTs, Macs w/ ethernet cards, IBMs w/ ethernet cards, etc. etc.

I'd be curious on how you plan to implement site licenses with this unique
number.

Bryce Jasmer
jasmerb@cs.orst.edu