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From: zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP48 Internals, etc
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Date: 5 Feb 91 11:43:26 GMT
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In article <27ae5b1f:1925.2comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn) writes:

>Derek: The EduCALC Goodies Disk #2 (the Voyager disk) will only have your
>rev B "HP48.MEM" file on it, mostly because there's only room on a floppy

While I would agree that a user should be able to backup a ROM card, I
have to disagree with what the Voyager disk is doing.  I would assume
the the rev B "HP48.MEM" file is a memory scan of an HP48 rev B.  I would
guess that it is illegal to distribute a binary image of a program.
How is distibuting the memory scan of a HP48sx any different then distibuting
an executable for lotus 1-2-3 or the ROMS for a Macintosh computer.
   All a person needs is the program xhp48sx that simulates the saturn
instruction set under Xwindows, and wallah, they have a great calculator!

Andrew
zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu