Re: Those Apple ][ clones...

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Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:

>> 6. ROM:
>>      192K -- This includes the only legal Apple compatible
>>      ROM by 1988 (Apple lost a lawsuit challenging it) and
>>      Microsoft BASIC (the Applesoft compatible version)
>>      licensed from Microsoft.
>
>I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this. In 1987 (and, I think, 
>in 1988) Franklin was still selling their 2000 and 500 series machines, 
>and those were legal ROMS.

Yes, but Franklins were not truely compatible.

I suppose you can say that the Laser was so compatible
that it was a "clone" in the IBM clone sense.  Anything
you threw at a Laser save two pieces of software would
run.

Now "clone" in the Apple II world has a different meaning.
It means a copy of the Apple II.  Illegal.  So we don't use
it.

Didn't the later legal Franklins have to boot some kind of
special ProDOS to use to circumvent the copyring issue?
On a Laser, this isn't necessary.  Software actually thinks
it is running on an Apple IIe/IIc.