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From: dar@belltec.UUCP (Dimitri Rotow)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: tape streamers question
Summary: Nope, our stuff works fine with generic drivers
Message-ID: <325@belltec.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 89 23:01:59 GMT
References: <1516@bebux.UUCP> <895@starfish.Convergent.COM> <314@belltec.UUCP> <379@ispi.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Technologies, Fremont, CA
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In article <379@ispi.UUCP>, jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:

[Quotations about Bell copy protection deleted]

> Unfortunately, Bell Technologies is practicing copy protection on
> Unix/Xenix.  By changing the PALS they ensure that only their software
> will work with their board, and that their board will only work with
> their software.  I found this out the hard way after SCO came out with
> direct support of the QIC-36 boards.  I now have a customer who is stuck
> 

Not so! the PAL locks no one out ... you can run SCO just fine with our
boards using the built-in SCO drivers.  Just make sure to set the interrupts,
etc, correctly.  Note that SCO itself quotes Bell Tech boards as supported
streamer tape plug ins in the SCO documentation.

- dimitri rotow