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From: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Some observations
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.160414.10965@ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 90 16:04:14 GMT
References: <2652@ttardis.UUCP>
Reply-To: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering
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In article <2652@ttardis.UUCP> rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) writes:
>For the IIgs, however, there is disk based copy of the core routines of the
>IIgs ROMs - only the Toolbox routines.  Therefore a would be clone maker
>would have to either license the ROMs, leave it to the customer to aquire
>a set of the ROMs, or implement enough of the ROMs from scratch to satisisfy
>GS/OS's needs (one of those needs is to match several dozen checksums GS/OS
>computes over various areas of the ROM - a very nearly impossible requirement)

Just a simple question about the checksums...is this an anti-clone
precaution or the way that GS/OS determines what revision ROM you
have?  Neither? Both my rationalizations seem unlikely.


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