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Re: Radius Mac clones



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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