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From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Infocom games
Message-ID: <809@ihlpg.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 11:31:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 11:31:03 1985
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> >From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR)
> >Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
> The software is licensed for a single CPU. This just means that the same
> game (or, rather, several copies derived from the same "original") can't be
> running on more than one machine at a time. If you take Borland's attitude,
> then it just means that you can only play your copy on one machine at a
> time. At the worst, it means that you have purchased the game to run on a
> specific machine- YOURS. (I suspect that this is what the first follow-up
> refers to.)

I can understand that.  I was trying to understand how they could 'force' 
you to 'keep' the disk, which is what the first followup seemed to be
saying.  When you think about it, there are many games which you can load
in on your machine and then loan the disk to the guy next to you.  But the
Infocom games are so disk-dependent that this simply isn't possible.

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