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  1.     id m0tpCV1-0007q6a; Wed, 21 Feb 96 04:14 MST
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  6. From: stufried@ix.netcom.com (Stuart Friedman )
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  8. Subject: Re: Mac on PC
  9. Date: 20 Feb 1996 14:06:52 GMT
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  22. In <3129b8d6.2759236@news.brandeis.edu> jaliyaj@cs.brandeis.edu (Jaliya
  23. Jayawardena) writes: 
  24. >
  25.  
  26. >    Maroon! Have you even tried to write an emulator? (I haven't
  27. >either but I don't go around knocking emulators which aren't perfect)
  28. >Keep in mind that the Executor folks wrote the whole thing
  29. >'clean-room' without decompiling Apple's code. The last company which
  30. >did that was Compaq when they 'cloned' (apparently Compaq hates the
  31. >word) the PC bios. It isn't easy to do well and you shouldn't knock
  32. >the Ardi folks for trying.
  33. >
  34. I agree with everything that you said, but Video Technologies cloned
  35. the Apple ][ bios after Compaq cloned the IBM bios.
  36.  
  37.