Re: "official" FSF position on apple

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From: Olaf Titz
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 18:28

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In <BvIGCM.Ixs@rice.edu> jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu writes:

>...
>  >Not every Apple Macintosh can do everything what Apple Macintosh can.
>  >These do all what Mac Plus does (they take Mac Plus ROMs).
>
>  Whoopee.  Accelerate that creaking 1986 technology.  Love that 24-bit
>  addressing, no Color QuickDraw, max 4MB of RAM, no sound chip machine.
>  Emulating a Mac Plus is about as interesting as building a 286-based
>  PC clone.

In fact, it is more of an 8088 PC clone, if you compare technological
generations. The Mac Plus was obsolete in 1986.

I agree that those {Amiga,Atari} Mac emulators based on 64k Mac Plus
ROMs make no sense today. (And I think a real Mac Classic with 9"
peephole doesn't either.)

MfG,
        Olaf
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