Re: Mac clone rumor (long)

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From: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 20:21

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In article <20335@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark 
Interrante) writes:
> most operations, due to the fact that they are written purely in 68000
> assembly language (Apple wrote their Mac ROMs using C).  Also, C.E.K.A's

Well this is false.  The 128K ROMs were written 100% in assembler.  Later 
ROM version have included some C code (I think), but are still primarily 
in assembler.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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Subject: Re: Mac clone rumor (long)
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