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Article #12522Re: Reserve engineering stuff,.....
From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 1990 20:20
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 1990 20:20
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In article <1990Jun7.190751.10452@cs.utk.edu> wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) writes: > > I have been wondering about the legality of the following: > > Suppose you take a programmable RISC based CPU and make it >immulate a 68030. Next you write ROM functions with the same name as >those in the Mac (so programmes can find them), but maybe optimise them >better. Then write an OS that has the same functions as the Mac OS. >Use the TIGA chip to control graphics with a Mac emmulator in ROM so >that windows open to a "mac-like" screen. Now market it as a Mac >compatible. You might not violate any copyrights doing this, but there are a few aspects of the Mac OS that are patented, and I suspect that doing this would violate them. DISCLAIMER: I'm not a lawyer. I don't know any lawyers. I don't even want to know any lawyers. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu ][, ][+, ///, ///+, //e, //c, IIGS, //c+ --- Any questions?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!ames!dftsrv!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Reserve engineering stuff,..... Message-ID: <1990Jun7.202044.7800@eng.umd.edu> Date: 7 Jun 90 20:20:44 GMT References: <1990Jun7.190751.10452@cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Distribution: usa Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 20