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From: nazgul@apollo.uucp (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Including DOS in marketable products
Message-ID: <2ef879d6.46@apollo.uucp>
Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 19:03:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 18 19:03:16 1986
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Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <1367@burl.UUCP> geoff@burl.UUCP (geoff) writes:
> Does anyone have any experience in including DOS in a product?  I have
> seen stand-alone disks that boot the Apple, load themselves, and go.
> I assume they have a copy of DOS on the disk to load the program and
> to do any kind of disk read/write the program might need.  Is this
> licensed through Apple?  How much does it cost?  I have a program
> that runs under DOS 3.3 right now, but I may move it to ProDos later.
> Currently, the user has to boot up (the correct version of) DOS, then
> BRUN the program.  Since I will have two separate programs on the disk
> I can't get around the BRUN, but I would at least like to guarantee that
> the user has the right version of DOS.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> -- 
> 
> 		geoff sherwood
> 		...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!geoff
> 		...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!geoff
> 
Write to Apple and ask for information on licensing their software.  They'll
send you a list of available software (which, by the way, includes some
wonderful stuff for doing all of the Mac-like graphics under Prodos) and
prices.  The prices average about $50 a year to license the stuff, and
they'll send you a master copy of whatever you order, plus any necessary
documentation.  All you have to do is sign a document telling them the
name of the company (or yourself), the name of the software and a brief
description of what it does.

                                            -kee

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