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Article #26017Re: Tandy Mac Clone?
From: Zigurd R. Mednieks
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 1988 22:46
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 1988 22:46
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Overheard among Cambridge Unix hacker types: "Phoenix WANTS to have Mac compatible ROMs." Also, I was at the satellite video roll out for the MicroExplorer. TI and Apple are so lovey-dovey it hardly seems possible that TI would compete against Apple. TI might concievably make a super-high-end Macintosh to complement their high-end Explorer processor. They have all the hardware (their NuBus 680x0-based Unix systems which are already mated to Lisp processors). They would need the ROMs and to write the i/o drivers. This would fill a market need for TI, in that the Mac user interface is probably the best thing that ever happened to Lisp machines and why not use it throughout the model line. But this is a need that could be filled by mating Explorer IIs to Macintoshes -- no need to sell (or licence) the crown jewels. (In fact, it would seem that the software that makes it possible for the MicroExplorer to live on the Mac II NuBus would also work over an Ethernet link between a Mac II and a full size Explorer II.) -Zigurd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zigurd Mednieks MURSU Corporation (617)424-0146 25 Exeter Street Boston, MA 02116
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!zrm From: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Tandy Mac Clone? Message-ID: <8404@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: 6 Mar 88 22:46:31 GMT References: <1044@sask.UUCP> <525@psu-cs.UUCP> <8322@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> Reply-To: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks) Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 26