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From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Official legal stuff & all that ...
Message-ID: <12164@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 28 Jun 89 03:05:47 GMT
References: <142@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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  This guy's real good, un-informed, but none the less good....

In article <142@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au> U5569462@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au (DAVID CLUNIE) writes:
>Regretably, I cannot really afford the time to embark on this myself. I don't
>use Mac's, and I can't afford them given the relatively low performance of
>the hardware. Many of my initially less computer literate colleagues do
>however, and it is said to watch them eagerly devouring the friendly user
>interface, but suffering under the burden of poor performance due to an over
>loaded processor driving slow disks on a tiny (and frankly ugly) monochrome
>screen.

  What can you afford that has better performance than the Macintosh in the
same price range, Mac's are expensive, but compared with what's out there
it's not a bad.  I don't consider a DOS clone in the same catagory of mac
performance so that doesn't count.

  If you haven't used them please don't make judgements.  Even used an 80286
running windows??  Not too much faster, and a fast Sun workstation doing
X-Windows can also appear slow at times.

>What is needed is a Mac IICX clone that costs as little as comparably
>equipped IBM clone. All we need is a MAC ROM clone to achieve this end !

  And who's system software will we run???  Apple seems to be rather
aggresive in their resolve to follow through on the licence agreement
not to allow the system software to run on anything other than "Apple"
equipment.  I don't think big business would risk the legal hassels of
purchasing a clone.

>So go to it Mac programmers ...

  Sound's like he's addressing children....

>and if you don't want to worry about the
>Beats wasting your time writing yet another file compression program, or
>icon editor, or animation program, etc. There are already plenty of those.

  I'll waste my time on what I choose to waste it on.  This is a very well
hidden mac bash article.  I didn't like the tone...

>But please, please, don't get to carried away with the social engineering
>bit and become another Richard Stallman. Spare us that.

  Forgive me, but would someone inform me who Richard Stallman is.  And why
are you talking about us, when you don't use Macs then you are not us..
spare us please.

>Regards  ... David

  Another David, but no regards.
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