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From: hentosh@amethyst.bucknell.EDU
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Subject: Re:  SoftSwitch comes with manuals
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Date: 5 Apr 89 17:14:33 GMT
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>>From:         "Jeremy G. Mereness" <jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
>
>SoftSwitch is useful; the manuals are good; it is not
>copy-protected.  It _is_ copyrighted.  Ken Kashmarek and Roger
>Wagner have put a lot of work into the package.  Buy it.

> --David A. Lyons              bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs

I don't have a copy of SoftSwitch and haven't seen on.  But I thought
there used to be a big controversy over SoftSwitch's copy-protection.
That it wrote a specific byte into an unused location of batter-backup
ram, and some people where complaining about becoming obsolete when that
location might later have a function. After all if every company did that
it would fill the unused portions of backup ram or they would write over
each other.  Is this still true or did they remove it or was that something
else?  Just curious.

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