Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!greg.trice
From: greg.trice@canremote.uucp (GREG TRICE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware MAC
Message-ID: <89120107511652@masnet.uucp>
Date: 29 Nov 89 14:30:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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Why does everybody assume that a Mac emulator has to use Mac ROMs or any
Mac code at all? There are an infinite number of ways to do a given job 
and it is perfectly possible for somebody to carefully read all the Mac 
documentation and then sit down and write code that will do exactly the 
same job as the Mac roms, but have not a byte in common with them in 
code. This is the situation with most IBM compatible systems. Though 
they are functionally identical to the IBM product, their ROMs contain 
different, but functionally identical code.
 It should be perfectly possible to produce a Mac emulator that used no 
ROMs at all, but was wholly disk based (given sufficient memory to hold 
the quondam ROM code in RAM).
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