Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!rex!ames!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Mac Clones.. just wondering. Message-ID: <1991Jan9.004302.16542@eng.umd.edu> Date: 9 Jan 91 00:43:02 GMT References: <1991Jan7.025124.11924@gsm001.uucp> <1991Jan8.010357.4297@eng.umd.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 36 In article francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >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.) Check out the appendices of Inside Mac.... > [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). Yeah. It was crap-- really ancient technology, unreliable, and incompatible. > 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.) You could say the same of Prodos (the directory is different, but not the formatting) -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.