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- From: Walter Bright <wbright@symantec.com>
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- Subject: Re: Need Unique ID generation
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:17:59 -0800
- Organization: Symantec Development Tools Business Unit
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- Antonio Romeo wrote:
- > I need a Unique Identifier generation routine on multiple machines.
- > The identifier must be a 32bit long (unsigned long int) number.
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- I believe Microsoft solved this problem by melding in the network card
- address with the time of day.
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