Everex Tapes vs Xenix

[john]

In article <1710 at van-bc.UUCP>, sl at van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) writes:
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> Bell Technologies sells this under their own name, with drivers for System
> V/286 or 386 and Xenix 286/386/SCO/IBM.
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> Unfortunately for you, rumour has it they have very slightly modified the
> controller to allow their driver to distinguish their own version from the
> generic version to prevent anyone from pirating the software.
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This is true - I called them last year and asked about it and was told
they do modify a gate array (as I recall) for just that purpose.