Re: OS For IIGS

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KCUF airmaster (airmaster@KCUF.org) wrote:
: On Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:33:51 -0600, "Greg J. Buchner"
: <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us> wrote:

: >And why should Apple license the Mac motherboard...IBM never went
: >and licensed the IBM PC...someone just reversed engineered it and
: >put the bios on the market.  Let's seem someone do that for the
: >Macintosh.

: Anyone that technically skilled won't touch a Macintosh.

It's a lot less work rewriting the BIOS than it is to rewrite the
Toolbox routines.

Consider:  the BIOS does very simple tasks, while the Toolbox manages
the GUI.  That's one HECK of a difference when it comes to reverse
engineering and rewriting.

Let's see, that's a difference of about 4K to 8MB... an increase of
roughly 2000%.

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