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- About this release
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- In response to increasing demand from our customer base for software to
- enable connection to The Internet etc., and coincident with the launch of our
- range of new networking products, the Network Group at Acorn Computers have
- arranged to make available a release of Acorn's implementation of the TCP/IP
- protocol stack : this is subject to the licence conditions detailed in the
- documentation accompanying the software.
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- It consists of two archives ('Spark File' type produced with David Pilling's
- !SparkFS) containing software and related documentation, both software items
- being compliant with the DCI 4 specification, as used in all new Acorn AUN
- products :-
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- 1) the 'InterNet' archive, which contains the TCP/IP protocol stack itself.
- 2) the 'BootNet' archive, which contains the AUN protocol stack.
-
- This release does not include the client tools which form a part of the
- 'Acorn TCP/IP Protocol Suite (Release 2)' product, nor does it include some
- of the more advanced components of the networking software which are present
- in the above product.
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- We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our colleagues who
- have made this possible, especially Technical Publications, the Legal
- Department and senior management, and the third party developers for their
- permission to include the various hardware drivers and other utilities that
- they have supplied; last, but by no means least, special thanks to the
- members of the Network Software Development team.
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- Acorn Computers Ltd. reserves the right to revise or withdraw this software
- release at any time, without prior notice.
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- For details on the ANT network drivers (Ether3-16, Ether3-8 and EtherB) and
- ANT's showstat utility, please see the file "ReadMe-ANT" in this directory.
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- The drivers and showstat have, for your convenience, been placed in the
- appropriate directories in the !Internet and !BootNet application archives.
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