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From: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz)
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Subject: Re: Mac is software - why not on NeXT?
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Date: 13 Nov 90 04:59:46 GMT
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In article <1990Nov6.160855.864@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) writes:
>                                                    Therefore, the only real
>option is to do what the Amacs cards do.   Buy a mac, yank the ROMS, and stick
>them in whatever Mac emulator board you have.  That is the only legal option
>unless Apple wants to license out their ROM code

Hmm, what about MacWorks for the Lisa/MacXL that Sun Remarketing is, as far as
I know, still selling? Contains a Mac+ ROM image, for all practical purposes.
I still have a copy of the original MacWorks disk, and you can bet that as soon
as I get myself a NeXT machine I'll try writing something to read that image
in (actually, I think you have to link it, too, but the linker is part of the
boot sector image).

I suggested that option to Dave Small back when he was working on the original
MagicSac thing, but he never did anything with it.

Note that MacWorks comes with the system software normally bundled with a Mac+.
The original one even came with MacWrite and MacPaint. I'm not sure what the
current price is, probably around $250.
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Steve Peltz
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