From: Stainless Steel Rat (ratinox_at_peorth.gweep.net)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 14:48:11 PDT
* Paul Guyot <pguyot_at_kallisys.net> on Thu, 28 Jun 2001
| Hence, either it computes the ID in some random way (like the Ethernet
| MAC address on MacOS),
Umm... no. Ethernet hardware addresses are burned into the adaptor at the
time of manufacture. Some adaptors can have their addresses temporarilly
superseded, but that is a "feature" of the adaptor, not the OS.
| and the function is only present on NOS 2.0, or the ID chip is there on
| both units and only used with NOS 2.0, or the NewtonScript function is
| there only with OS 2.0.
The function is OS 2.x. I believe it calculates the ID from the CPU serial
number.
| BTW, I happened to see and use a MP120/1.3-F today. It seemed really
| slow compared to the MP120/2.0 US I have used several months ago.
| Does anyone confirm this impression?
Yep. OS 1.3 has a lot of stuff written in NewtonScript where 2.x has
compiled ARM code. And that particular model has less memory, IIRC, and a
smaller heap.
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