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From: dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Mac software on ST?
Message-ID: <381@spdcc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Aug-86 20:40:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 11 20:40:32 1986
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Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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Keywords: Mac, ST, combination thereof

Inasmuchas the Mac ROMs are rather like the IBM PC BIOS (or, better,
what the BIOS should have been), isn't expecting Apple to license their
sale rather like asking IBM to sell its BIOS separately to clone makers?
This "product" leaves a bad taste in my mouth, if only because the producers
took the easy way out.  Far better it would have been to reverse-engineer
the ROMs from the programming interface specification.  This is a lot harder,
granted, but it also avoids many of the hassles that have been described in
the media.
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
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