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. 

The released software 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 :- 

1) the 'Internet' archive, which contains the TCP/IP protocol stack itself. 
2) the 'BootNet' archive, which contains the AUN protocol stack. 

Both archives, with attendant ReadMe files describing licensing etc, may be 
found in ftp.acorn.co.uk:/pub/riscos/releases/DCI4/* 

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 that they have supplied ; 
last, but by no means least, special thanks to the members of the Network 
Software Development team. 

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