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Matthias Neeracher writes:
>>they've got a "clean-development" room where they're reverse-engineering those
>>ROM routines, and trying to figure out the copy protection schemes...
>
>Copy protection schemes ? Are you sure you're talking about a Mac and not about
>a TI 99/4? Mac ROMs are so heavily copy protected that it takes a 12 year old
>with an EPROM burner to copy them :-)
>

There's a location in the Mac Plus ROMs that if you jump to it, the Apple
symbol in the menu bar gets replaced with "THIS ROM STOLEN FROM APPLE."

That 12 year old with the EPROM burner might want to make sure that the
ROMs don't actually use that code before building systems with the copied
ROMs. :-)

--Tim Smith