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From: fischer@arisia.Xerox.COM (Ronald A. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Cloning Mac ROMS
Summary: already done under ms-dos, Apple bought out
Message-ID: <667@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 89 19:29:15 GMT
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Organization: Xerox PARC
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About two years ago a company claimed to have cloned the Mac ROMS
under ms-dos.  The resolution was apparently that Apple simply bought
them out (they were a very small company) and sat on the software.

In the ms-dos domain exact binary compatibility would not have been
an issue, but duplicate functionality would have eaten market share.

(ron)