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From: cy@dbase.A-T.COM (Cy Shuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Reverse engineering stuff,.....
Message-ID: <597@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 90 01:42:17 GMT
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In article <RANG.90Jun13164944@derby.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
>  Cloning the Mac ROM functionality would be a lot of work, and people
>could probably not use standard system files with cloned ROMs (none of
>the patches would work).  It could be done, given time and money; I
>don't know what parts of the Mac system are copyrighted/patented and
>could lead to trouble.  (I'm not a lawyer.)

There's a company called Screenplay Systems in Burbank that has done
it (all except the SCSI and Sound Managers)... and done it for the
IBM PC! Their product is called MCP -- it's a set of libraries that
you link with. The Inside Mac calls are identical, but the interface
as shown is Open Look.

I saw it running at the Showbiz Expo down here.  Awesome...

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