Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!ames!dftsrv!mimsy!mojo!russotto
From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Reserve engineering stuff,.....
Message-ID: <1990Jun7.202044.7800@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 90 20:20:44 GMT
References: <1990Jun7.190751.10452@cs.utk.edu>
Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System)
Distribution: usa
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park
Lines: 20

In article <1990Jun7.190751.10452@cs.utk.edu> wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) writes:
>
>	I have been wondering about the legality of the following:
>
>	Suppose you take a programmable RISC based CPU and make it
>immulate a 68030.  Next you write ROM functions with the same name as
>those in the Mac (so programmes can find them), but maybe optimise them
>better.  Then write an OS that has the same functions as the Mac OS.
>Use the TIGA chip to control graphics with a Mac emmulator in ROM so
>that windows open to a "mac-like" screen.  Now market it as a Mac
>compatible.

You might not violate any copyrights doing this, but there are a few aspects
of the Mac OS that are patented, and I suspect that doing this would violate
them.
DISCLAIMER:  I'm not a lawyer.  I don't know any lawyers.  I don't even want
to know any lawyers.
--
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
][, ][+, ///, ///+, //e, //c, IIGS, //c+ --- Any questions?