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Date: Sun 26-Jul-1989 16:19:18 From: Unknown Subject: Machine serial numbers One easy serial number you should be able to get to on a cube would be the Ethernet address. That should be different for every machine and you could use it in the trivial copy protect scheme somebody asked about... >From: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Date: Sun 30-Jul-1989 02:48:13 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Machine serial numbers In article <347@nanovx.UUCP>, matt@nanovx.UUCP (Matt Brandt) writes: > One easy serial number you should be able to get to on a cube would be the > Ethernet address. That should be different for every machine and you could > use it in the trivial copy protect scheme somebody asked about... This is a really bad idea, because NeXT intends to release a new PROM with the 1.0 release. The ether address is in these PROMS, and so if anyone uses your product and NeXT decides to update the firmware, you screw your customer.... a very bad thing. apple!zygot!bruceh "The ATI wares team"
Date: Sun 30-Jul-1989 21:33:13 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Machine serial numbers In article <2124@zygot.UUCP> bruceh@zygot.UUCP (Bruce Henderson) writes: > ... NeXT intends to release a new PROM >with the 1.0 release. The ether address is in these >PROMS What? Give up our prestigious low numbers? NeXT should have a record of serial number-enet assignments, and given that each PROM has to be customized anyway... Heck, I wouldn't mind blowing my own (as long as I could easily replace their company logo like NeXT's oft-mentioned competitor lets you do). -=EPS=- / SFSU >From: blenko-tom@CS.YALE.EDU (Tom Blenko)
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