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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.

It consists of three 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 :-

1) the 'Internet' archive - the TCP/IP protocol stack.
2) the 'BootNet' archive -  the AUN protocol stack.
3) the 'System' archive - contains the modules which provide the protocol
                          stacks, and need to be merged into your !System.

Note: You will need to download the System archive to install either
       of the other archives

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.

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.

We are grateful to those third party developers who have kindly supplied, and
given permission for the distribution of, their driver modules and items of
ancilliary software which are included in this release.

Acorn Computers Ltd. reserves the right to revise or withdraw this software
release at any time, without prior notice.

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Third party software has, for your convenience, been placed in the
appropriate directories in the !Internet and !BootNet application archives.

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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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For details on the i^3 network drivers (EtherH16 and EtherH8) and  i^3's
flash ROM upgrade utility, please see the file "ReadMe-i3" in this directory.

The flash ROM upgrade has been archived separately, and is not included
in this disc-based distribution for reasons of space.