On Thursday, October 14, 2004, at 08:55AM, Tom Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, emulations generally have issues.... > >However, given that it's an emulation of the hardware, and that the >user still has to go out and buy a genuine copy of OS-X - I don't think >Apple can complain much, can they? As far as I can think, nothing >copyrighted by them is being emulated. Booting OS X on any PowerPC machine presumably requires some of the Apple Boot ROM code. Probably only a very tiny part compared to OS 9 (as in the bit that says 'Yes, this is a Mac!') as it's essenially a PPC BSD distro in disguise and loads the kernel into the NVRAM when you set OS X as the boot OS. It does however still require certain Mac specific basic I/O code (Mac Equivqlent of PC BIOS ROM code). Needless to say any code it needs to access in the Mac ROM that is not part of the generic PPC platform is Copyrighted by Apple Computer. >It's Motorola & IBM, the chip >manufacturers, who might have a concern, but I imagine that the >programmer is using published interface information to do it all. They would probably have little or no case, as the proponent of the Emulator is not producing microprocessors based on the PPC design, but instead an emulator that simply feeds the correct response back to anything executing PPC code. This is pretty easy for a good programmer as the whole machine code and assembler behaviour is widely documented.This is in effect no different to building an advanced BASIC enterpretor far a platform with no native BASIC. -- Mark Benson http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
