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From: -Rich-@cup.portal.com (Richard Sherman Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Would you believe?
Message-ID: <43524@cup.portal.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 05:24:50 GMT
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>>if you have a gs ram ultra.... let me know if you are interested...
>>I'm trying to think of uses for the extra rom space.
>>
>All ROM space is reserved for Apple and may not be used by third-party
>developers for any reason.

Matt, Apple can copyright their ROMS, but they do not own the ROM
*space*. I do not think it possible that Apple has plans for *all* 8MB
of ROM space, nor have I ever heard of any computer of any kind with
that much ROM. ROM's cost money, and board space, and it would take a
hell of a lot of code and *large* graphics to fill 8 MB.

Now Apple can say that they will not support any such use, and that things
done in this space may break in the future. But I cannot see how they have
any say over others using it. Nor can I think of any legal reasons why I
should not put my own code there (not that I have any such plans). Correct
me if I you know different. 


>>Steven Chiang                  Coming Soon:  DreamGrafix  3200 color power  
>>stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
>>America On_Line:  DWS Steve    Apple IIgs Forever!
>-- 
>============================================================================
>Matt Deatherage, Developer Technical  | The opinions expressed herein are
>Support, Apple Computer, Inc.         | not those of Apple Computer, and
>Personal mail only, please.  Thanks.  | shame on you for thinking otherwise.
>^^^^^^^^ Technical questions are not personal. Please post them instead.
>============================================================================

Rich

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