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>>>>> On 29 Nov 89 14:30:00 GMT, greg.trice@canremote.uucp (GREG TRICE) said:

greg> Why does everybody assume that a Mac emulator has to use Mac ROMs or any
greg> Mac code at all? There are an infinite number of ways to do a given job 
greg> and it is perfectly possible for somebody to carefully read all the Mac 
greg> documentation and then sit down and write code that will do exactly the 
greg> same job as the Mac roms, but have not a byte in common with them in 
greg> code. This is the situation with most IBM compatible systems. Though 
greg> they are functionally identical to the IBM product, their ROMs contain 
greg> different, but functionally identical code.
greg>  It should be perfectly possible to produce a Mac emulator that used no 
greg> ROMs at all, but was wholly disk based (given sufficient memory to hold 
greg> the quondam ROM code in RAM).


Go ahead and try...I'll see you in a few years.

The Apple ROMS are the result of several hundred person-years of work,
and you expect one enterprising hacker to recode them, and do all
of the testing and revising to ensure even a reasonable amount of
compatibilty?  Obviously you've never developed software for a living.

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