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Yepp.. you are correct. V3r6 was the very first "hardware only" release.

The first "real" risc OS was V4 on the 600, although v3r6 was what got
shipped on the 400/500 very early on. The 9406-600 came exactly one year
later... I don't recall any of my customers having to actually pay for
V4R1....





Here are the original "Terms & Conditions" for V4

http://www1.ibmlink.ibm.com/cgi-bin/master?xh=hJSJZlVoFy$X162USenGnN9332&request=announcements&parms=H%5f297%2d308&xhi=usa%2emain%7csalesmanual%5e&xfr=N

Al Barsa wrote:
>
> V4R1 was first shipped on model 6XX.  Customers with 4xx/5xx hardware had
> to upgrade.


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