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From: attcan!utzoo!henry@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Macintosh emulator for the SUN3
Keywords: Software
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Date: 26 Apr 89 08:05:21 GMT
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>Has anyone come up with the idea of writing a Macintosh emulator for the
>SUN3. It shouldn't be too difficult since the CPU is the same...

The big problem is that to be useful to Mac programs, you must duplicate
the support software in Apple's ROMs.  From scratch, not by copying the
ones out of a Mac -- doing it by copying is a copyright violation, and
Apple will get you for that.  This is not a small job.

	Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
	uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu