AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (04/05/89)
>Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 01:08:10 CDT >From: "Jeremy G. Mereness" <jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU> >Subject: SoftSwitch > >I am experimenting with a copy of SoftSwitch that came with my computer, > >Apparently, any program that tries to capture all the available memory kills >Softswitch. All legitimate copies of SoftSwitch come with manuals. I will not quote for you the parts of the manual dealing with applications that hog memory, and I hope no one else will either. You can contact Roger Wagner Publishing at (619) 442-0522, or at 1050 Pioneer Way, Suite P, El Cajon CA 92020. 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. >jeremy mereness >jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arpanet) >r746jm7e@CMCCVB (vax.... Bitnet) --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons
hentosh@amethyst.bucknell.EDU (04/06/89)
>>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. -- BITNET : hentosh@amethyst.bucknell.edu hentoshr@bknlvms.bitnet AppleLink PE : RobertH128
ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET (04/07/89)
Yes, Softswitch used to write in the battery RAM as a form of copy protection, but the updated version no longer does that, and is not copy protected.