Re: Apple? (Was: Terry Lambert's blathering)

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From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 09:22

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In article <3vge4m$2o2@news.onramp.net>, johnmm@onramp.net wrote:

> If you have access to real information about the internals of a Mac,
> would you be so kind as to tell the MAC-Linux team where you found it?
> They tried and failed.  Perhaps you don't understand just what level of
> documentation is needed to implement an entire OS, not just a device
> driver into MAC-OS.
> 
> : "Wah... I wanna write my own drivers!"  Of all the Mac programmers I
> : have met or know... there are incredibly few cases that they have had
> : need to access hardware directly.

Such as??  I have yet to see anyone post specific questions (although
groups like comp.sys.mac.system would probably be more appropriate).  All
I see is a bit of whining about how Apple won't just give away all its
source code.
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        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799
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Subject: Re: Apple? (Was: Terry Lambert's blathering)
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 02:22:39 -0700
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