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Re: Mac on PC



In <3129b8d6.2759236@news.brandeis.edu> jaliyaj@cs.brandeis.edu (Jaliya
Jayawardena) writes: 
>

>	Maroon! Have you even tried to write an emulator? (I haven't
>either but I don't go around knocking emulators which aren't perfect)
>Keep in mind that the Executor folks wrote the whole thing
>'clean-room' without decompiling Apple's code. The last company which
>did that was Compaq when they 'cloned' (apparently Compaq hates the
>word) the PC bios. It isn't easy to do well and you shouldn't knock
>the Ardi folks for trying.
>
I agree with everything that you said, but Video Technologies cloned
the Apple ][ bios after Compaq cloned the IBM bios.


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