Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!biar!trebor
From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Keywords: legal stuff
Message-ID: <648@biar.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 89 15:04:54 GMT
References: <2073@astroatc.UUCP> <2928@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <841@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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In article <841@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>In any case, is it not true that companies like Chips and Technologies
>have established precident that it IS possible to clone something exactly
>(bug-for-bug) without access to proprietary material?

	It is possible to find out about bugs in a chip without
	access to proprietary materials.  In some cases it is
	essential, if you are trying to duplicate function (as
	C&T needs to do in it's chipsets) to also replicate the
	bugs (!) because some programs depend on them.

	Note however that cloning the Mac Roms and developing a
	chipset that provides much of the functionality of a PC
	are two different things.

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