From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo)
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Subject: Re: Mac Vs. Windows? 
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Date: 19 May 91 15:40:09 EST

wchang@qin.Berkeley.EDU (William Chang) writes:


WC> I believe the Mac ROM exists in order to make the Mac legally unclonable,
WC> by copyright.

     You don't need to put your s/w ito ROMs to get extra copyright protection.

     I believe the ROM's were used (i) to make it mich more difficult to
*physically* copy the OS; and (ii) to spped up the original 1984 mac:  in the
old days, macs had only 128K of RAM and had to frequently purge and retrieve much 
of the OS from slooow floppys.  The ROMs freed up RAM for applications to use
and speeded up things because they were "preloaded" with the OS.


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