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From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Sun-Macintosh emulator
Message-ID: <QY_FGay00V41Q_Wkh2@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 89 16:00:38 GMT
References: <452@vice2utc.chalmers.se> <27619@apple.Apple.COM>,
	<12124@reed.UUCP>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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In-Reply-To: <12124@reed.UUCP>

> Once you buy a Mac, the ROM's are legal copies of copyrighted media that you
> now own.  Case law, at the moment, treats software and ROM code, I believe,
> like any other media.  *Theoretically*, then, you can make copies of ROM's for
> personal use.  There would be nothing to stop someone marketing a
> clone of the Mac architecture with fast RAM in place of the ROM's and a ROM
> disassembler, which would copy Mac ROM code onto a hard disk on the clone,
> which would then read the copy of the Mac ROM code into the RAM whenever the
> machine was booted (very slow boot, of course). Provided this machine was
> marketed for the sole purpose of allowing legal owners of Mac ROM's to copy
> them for personal use in the clone, it would probably be legal.

This has already been done in both Mac ][ Plus and ][ in a Mac.  Both programs
come with applications that grab the Apple ][ ROM's through the serial port.


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