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From: psteffn@pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Paul Steffen)
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Subject: Re: mac emulators
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Date: 29 Apr 91 04:07:46 GMT
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I'm sure Dave Small's original intention 

was to release the emulator completely on a disk.  Remember, however, that
Apple is a company that sues anyone, no matter how big or small, that
steps in it's path.  They sued Microsoft, a company that if it weren't
for their early support of the Mac, Apple might not even 
been successful with the Mac and  and be quite different
from the giant it is now [not to mention Steve Jobs ego.  d:^].
They sued Hewlett-Packard, another company that  Apple
I doubt very much that it would have been a wise move on Dave's part
to do it.  [after all, the reason why the Mac operating system is so
easily emulated is because Apple's hard work at developing an operating
system elaborate enough to keep programmers away from doing any low
level hardware stuff].  The Macintosh hardware is nothing.  It's that
128k that makes up the ROM that is the Macintosh.  
The reason that PC Ditto resides on a floppy is because someone took the
copyrighted bios and wrote a compatible one without somehow
infringing on IBM's.  Perhaps [although, this is only a guess] IBM
might have tried to stop it purely because their BIOS and the cloned
BIOS are identical in the order of the system calls but since
the same goes for CPM which was developed many years before
IBM ever thought of doing a personal computer.
I read somewhere that a company successfully wrote a legal
clone of the Mac roms so you may see a disk version emulator that is
legal.