[Coco] The 6309 Micro Processor Project
John Collyer
johncollyer at zoominternet.net
Wed Dec 3 15:02:00 EST 2003
No it just uses the binaries. I did not know it was bad.
I down loaded the binaries from the internet, and I have seen
them offered, in more then one website. If it's bad! I'll have
to remove the makeboot.exe download I was hoping to help
some coco users with.
Consider it gone and not available.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John E. Malmberg" <malmberg at Encompasserve.org>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] The 6309 Micro Processor Project
>
> How is your boot disk maker coming up with MS-DOS 6.22 binaries
> from the host system if MS-DOS has not been installed on it?
>
> Is it just booting Windows in real mode?
>
> If your boot disk maker contains any of the MS-DOS 6.22 binaries, it
> is in violation of Microsoft's copyrights, and Microsoft is still quite
> active in going after anyone that is distributing MS-DOS boot
> disks or images of them with out paying them their license fee for each
> one.
>
> That license fee was last known to be about $75.00 per copy if you
> were a very large customer.
>
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.net
> Personal Opinion Only
>
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