Re: Copyrights and Copywrongs

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From: Ricky Beam
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1993 04:44

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Gee, I get to add abit of history :-)

coco-sysop@GENIE.GEIS.COM writes:
>
>Just curious ... does Microsoft still own the Disk Basic code at all?  They
>wrote it and EDTASM.
>

Microsoft holds the copyright on COCO Basic for the coco1/2.  The Basic
is the coco3 is the coco2's basic with hooks to tandy "hack" code with
the startup/reset jump set to DLOAD which makes the coco2s code work on
the coco3.

Radio Shack does not and never will hold anything for the coco basic.

History 101:
Tandy (al la Radio Shack) would not renegociate the license for basic, so
the design team copied the ROM into RAM so they could apply the "COCO3
Extended BASIC" code.  They over wrote the dload command in the ROM--it
never worked anyway--for the startup code.

--Ricky Beam (cramer)

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