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From: wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (William L Nussbaum)
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Subject: Re: Mac is software - why not on NeXT?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 00:24:38 GMT
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In <5974@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>In <1990Nov6.160855.864@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) writes:

>>'reverse engineer' the Mac Toolbox, go ahead.  Apple can't do much.  But that
>>is a pretty ridiculous project.  (Look at how few companies produced Apple II
>>clones.  2.  Only one is now still around.  Laser)  Therefore, the only real
>Actually, there was Franklin, Laser, and I hear there is a clone in
>the Soviet Union of the II's.  I've also heard that cloning is VERY
>big over in southeast asia, and that you can get whatever kind of
>Apple II that you want there, CHEAP (this from someone who was there).
>Of course, I don't think they are quite on the legal side. :)

...but these Apple II clones were "clones" - copies -- not compatibles.  PC
clones exist without legal problems because IBM published the BIOS code. Apple
didn't do the same; though I don't remember how Franklin and Laser avoided
problems, Apple's protected its rights to the Mac ROMs and system software
pretty thoroughly.  Apparently, someone has done some work on reconstructing
the Mac toolbox code as libraries for Unix machines, and, although it's
incomplete and apparently not without bugs that present major problems, the
routines ARE being written without knowledge of Apple's code...

whatever, whenever

  - Lee

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