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Article #67Re: mac compatibles ?
From: John W Peterson
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 1984 02:44
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 1984 02:44
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I think the reason there are no "Mac compatibles" is because of the copyright on the ROMs. Machines like the IBM PC require no more than a bright high-school kid and a license from MicroSoft to (re)write the necessary ROM software. This isn't true with the Mac; it takes a pretty high degree of sophistication to come up with things like a window manager and an extensive bitmap graphics package in assembly language. Some of QuickDraw's basic algorithm's (i.e, the "region clipper") aren't even published. There are companies producing retro-fitted Macs, though. There's a company now selling a mac re-fitted into a very rugged Osborn style case.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utah-cs.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!utah-cs!jwp From: jwp@utah-cs.UUCP (John W Peterson) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: mac compatibles ? Message-ID: <3120@utah-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 25-Nov-84 21:44:47 EST Article-I.D.: utah-cs.3120 Posted: Sun Nov 25 21:44:47 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 28-Nov-84 03:00:15 EST References: <91@vectron.UUCP> Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept Lines: 11