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Re: Modern A2 successor



Burger Bill has a "clean room" GS ROM? I've never heard of that... care to show
where you got that information? And does Bill allow people to use it? And if so,
for what?

Roy

The Meikles wrote:

> Ah, but you don't need Apples rom as Bill Heineman has already done most of
> the work for you in clean rooming his own version.
>
> Sheane
>
> "Roy and/or Janet Miller" <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote in message
> 3984FE7D.C4AF2523@inetnebr.com">news:3984FE7D.C4AF2523@inetnebr.com...
> > **** **** wrote:
> Since there isn't a 32 bit version of the 6502 family, I'd
> > chose on the basis of price between a Pentium, PPC, or Alpha. Power,
> without the
> > price. Of course, without Apple's permission, the machine is dead, because
> you'd
> > have to have the IIGS ROM, and while I love the 8 bit Apples (I own at
> least one
> > of every model except the original II and the black II), without the
> ability to
> > run IIGS software I think the machine would be unable to gather enough
> momentum
> > to see new software, even on the cottage industry level, which is what any
> Apple
> > II projects can only hope to grow up to be. I don't think any such machine
> will
> > ever come to be, but if I were pushing it, that's the direction it would
> go in.
> > What would Woz do?
> >
> > Roy