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Re: Apple Roms
picard29 (picard29@us.net) wrote:
: It seems to me one of the problems witht his emulator is that it does not have a accurate
: Representation of the apple roms, i saw a couple utilities on ftp.cdrom.com at /pub/mac/umich/utils/developer
: thet would dump the contents of the apple rom and some other stuff.
: i don't know if you can use this, but it is there.
: Picard,
I think that any reasonably bright person could dump the MAC ROMS and then
"reverse-engineer" them to figure out how to emulate a Mac.
The problem is that it would be difficult to market such a product when all
of your time would be spent in court. Apple would take you apart and
rightly so because such a product would be illegal without a license from
Apple.
The whole point about Executor is that is was developed using totally
"clean room" techniques by people with absolutely no information about
the ROM contents. This makes the product "squeaky clean" from a legal
standpoint.
Given this limitation, I think ARDI has done an incredible job and
produced a fantastic product. The only people who are getting hurt are
unemployed lawyers :-)
--
Brian E.W. Wood
beww@intac.com
"Would you put your money in a bank which used Windows '95 to manage accounts?"
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