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- From: beww@intac.com (Brian Wood)
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- Subject: Re: Apple Roms
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 05:29:23 GMT
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- 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.
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- : Picard,
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 :-)
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- 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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