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Radius Mac clones



I've heard many times how ARDI designed Executor from the ground up, 
using clean room techniques, because of the proprietory and secret nature 
of the Macintosh toolbox ROMs. Hence programs which use certain 
undocumented features of the ROMs will not work on Executor.

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.

I'd be interested to know what Radius and the other clone maker(s) do in 
this regard.

Bye....
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John de Bruin			
Email: j.bruin@auckland.ac.nz


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