Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!epa From: epa@iti.org (Eric P. Armstrong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: I have designed a MAC FX Message-ID: <1991Mar5.013005.4304@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: 5 Mar 91 01:30:05 GMT References: <3601@uc.msc.umn.edu> Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Distribution: comp Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 24 jeff@uf.msc.umn.edu (Jeff Turner) writes: >Steven Howell writes: >> I have designed a Mac II from A iifx memory map. >I am light-years away from being a legal expert, but I would think that with >all the fuss Apple has been causing lately (with respect to user interfaces >and the like), you might be in trouble if your ROMs emulate the MAC's >functions. Even though it is completely original code, if in the end it >provides the same look-and-feel as Apple's interface, you are on shaky ground. It might come under the same considerations as the IBMPC BIOS roms and UN*X kernal porting. The hardware should not be a problem? But the roms would have to be clean room ported, using at least two programmers and lots and lots of documentation. >I would recommend that you talk to a real attorney and take their advice. Still the best advice. ---- Eric P. Armstrong Kansas State University epa@phobos.cis.ksu.edu