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  1. In <3129b8d6.2759236@news.brandeis.edu> jaliyaj@cs.brandeis.edu (Jaliya
  2. Jayawardena) writes: 
  3. >
  4.  
  5. >    Maroon! Have you even tried to write an emulator? (I haven't
  6. >either but I don't go around knocking emulators which aren't perfect)
  7. >Keep in mind that the Executor folks wrote the whole thing
  8. >'clean-room' without decompiling Apple's code. The last company which
  9. >did that was Compaq when they 'cloned' (apparently Compaq hates the
  10. >word) the PC bios. It isn't easy to do well and you shouldn't knock
  11. >the Ardi folks for trying.
  12. >
  13. I agree with everything that you said, but Video Technologies cloned
  14. the Apple ][ bios after Compaq cloned the IBM bios.
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