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Re: ideal mac system...

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From: Jon Watte
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 22:00
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In article <steveg.89nov10105800@narnia.com.com> steveg@com.com (stephen harold goldstein) writes:

>Not trying to start a CPU war or anything, but for $4500 you could
>purchase the following:

>	Atari Mega 4 ST (4meg ram, 1 ds/dd floppy)
>                  w/640x400 mono monitor (13")     - $1800

>        128k Mac ROMs                              - $ 130

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it ILLEGAL to use Apple software (i.e.
Apple ROMs) on any other but Apple machinery ?

Also, this might be a workable system, but it's FAR from slick -
cumbersome, not compatible, etc. etc. Sure, it's good for some
applications, but it's not a mac. No upward compatibility, support
for all the various things that make the mac a truly magnificent
concept.

And it's MUCH harder to emulate an Atari on a mac, because Atari
programmers assume so much about the system setup - many atari games
only work on one kind of monitor, for instance...

But I'm digressing. Followups to alt.religion.computers

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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
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Subject: Re: ideal mac system...
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Date: 13 Nov 89 22:00:36 GMT
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Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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