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Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>> I've always thought they must be either pretty incompetent or a bunch of
>> money-grubbing b***ards to have written the spec to call for a 16-bit
>> VID and a 16-bit PID, rather than just dropping a GUID or something in
> 
> I don't think an off-line program can work, but they could have offered 
> let's say 10 PIDs for < $100.
> 

Well, GUIDs seem to work pretty well in the software world, and they're
generated offline based on the current time and the MAC address of the
generating computer's Ethernet card... so assuming MAC addresses are
unique (a reasonable though imperfect assumption), GUIDs are too.
They're used all over Windows already for things that are assumed to be
unique.

Chris
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