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Re: Mac clone rumor (long)

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From: mahan
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 17:12
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I don't know what method CEKA is using to protect their roms, but one
possible way is to have just a few memory addresses trigger the wipe.  Since
a typical rom copy routine is going to read every address.  Since we don't
know which addresses ( or block of addresses ) would trigger the wipe....
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From: mahan@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Mac clone rumor (long)
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Date: 23 May 89 17:12:00 GMT
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