mandatory for retail licenses from release 2005 onwards, and network licenses from release 2006 onwards. Prior to this, AutoCAD releases in some regions required installation of a software protection dongle to function.

Origins

AutoCAD was derived from a program that began in 1977, and then released in 1979 named Interact CAD, also referred to in early Autodesk documents as MicroCAD, which was written prior to Autodesk's (then Marinchip Software Partners) formation by Autodesk

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