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- In article <30EDE214.5C26@auckland.ac.nz>,
- John de Bruin <j.bruin@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
- >How then, do you explain the new Power Mac clones, from companies like
- >Radius? These machines are supposed to be 100% Mac compatible. Do they
- >reverse engineer the ROMs, do they buy the ROMs from Apple, or has Apple
- >made avaiable the code for these ROMs in the "Open Reference Platform" or
- >something like that.
-
- They have a liscence agreement set up with Apple.
-
- What happened is that Apple finally noticed that that market was being swamped
- with IBM compatible machines, and decided to try a fascinating "too little,
- too late" strategy of allowing specfic other companies to produce Apple
- compatible machines.
-
- I'm not sure when the experience we've seen time and again will finally
- become common knowledge: proprietary systems and computers just
- _dont_ _mix_.
-
-
- --
- Adam Roach -- adam.roach@exu.ericsson.se -- Standard Disclaimers, etc.
- There are three things I always forget. Names, faces -- the third I
- can't remember.
- -- Italo Svevo
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