Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Mac Clones.. just wondering. Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 91 22:06:42 GMT References: <53576@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991Jan7.025124.11924@gsm001.uucp> <1991Jan8.010357.4297@eng.umd.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: russotto@eng.umd.edu's message of 8 Jan 91 01:03:57 GMT In article <1991Jan8.010357.4297@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: In article <1991Jan7.025124.11924@gsm001.uucp> gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes: [...] Inside Mac I-V documents the software pretty completely-- at least what you would need to make a ROM code. What about trap #s? I didn't think they were in there... (You can find them pretty easily, I suppose.) [Mentioning the Franklin suit] >They ended up selling some of their technology to Apple, pulled themselves >out of chapter 11 and are happliy making IBM clones. Apple Prodos contains >many features Apple bought from Franklin's FDOS. Like what? Prodos is based pretty strongly on SOS from the Apple /// First of all, I believe I saw a (new) Franklin Apple II clone sometime after the suit (about Fall '86). Secondly, I'm not sure there ever was such a thing as FDOS--the Franklin we had came with Apple's DOS 3.3. (Or as near as makes no difference--the RWTS subroutine worked the same, and all the formatting was the same, so it can't be that different.) -- | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes |