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anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
> In article <w4TLRB19w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
> >Anyway, there is such a thing as a Macintosh-compatible non-Apple computer. 
> >The Outbound laptop is one, and the new Radius plug-in multiprocessing board
> >is another.
> 
> In both cases a Macintosh is needed for the machine to be a Mactintosh
> compatible.  Outbound merely goes to the trouble of obtaining a
> Macintosh for their machine so the user doesn't have to.

Burble burble?  If you define a Macintosh as "any machine containing Apple
ROMs", then yes, they do.  But that's about as sensible as defining an IBM PC
as "any machine running MS-DOS".

> I perhaps should have written "Mactintosh compatible computer that
> doesn't need a special peice of hardware (firmware) that only Apple
> makes and that they really don't want to sell without a computer
> wrapped around it".

How do you know they don't want to sell the Mac OS without the hardware? 
They seem to be willing to sell it to Radius and Outbound.


mathew
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