Re: "official" FSF position on apple

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From: Daniel R T Rothman
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 03:56

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mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:

>sfuller@tamsun.tamu.edu (Steven Eric Fuller) writes:
>> In article <1992Sep18.222551.28385@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony
>> >There is of course, no such thing as a Macintosh compatible.  
>> Yes there is. Another Macintosh.

>Which is more than you can say for PCs...

>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.

buzz. thank you for playing. the Rocket (Radius(TM)) loads your Mac's ROM
into on-board memory. Not the same thing.

You're really paying for the ROMs, which have the toolbox on them. everything
else is really just icing. This is part of the reason NuTek scares apple silly,
they've got a "clean-development" room where they're reverse-engineering those
ROM routines, and trying to figure out the copy protection schemes...

daniel

>mathew

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