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- From: worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: kickstart 512k rom image
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 14:02:37 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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- References: <312914DE.27BE@cs.duke.edu> <312A36B9.6569@cs.duke.edu> <4gdcf9$vlt@thales.nmia.com>
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- In article <4gdcf9$vlt@thales.nmia.com>,
- Kristofer D. Dale <barefoot@nmia.com> wrote:
- >: it is run on a powermac, it has to be complete hardware as well as
- >: software emulation. Hell the damn power mac's can't even emulate a
- >: 68K mac as fast a real 68K mac! (especially low end PPC's).
- >: Oh, and one last thing--if it is not right to be copying the ROM's
- >: of an amiga, why is right (even though it is so easy) to copy the
- >: ROM's of a mac (or powermac)?
- >
- >stop being pertinent! ;^]
-
- There are just a couple of conditions you would need to meet for it be to
- legal to copy the ROM, as far as I can see:
- (1) The ROM is itself a legal copy, owned by/licensed to you.
- (2) You only run one copy of the code at a time...so you cannot run the MacOS
- on your Amiga and hire out the original Mac, or vice versa.
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- Ben Hutchings, student. Finger me on worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk for various info.
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- Users of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your Micro$oft software
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