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From: meuchen@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac Clones question at the end & (was Re: Dead mice)
Summary: Amiga a Mac clone? Sorry.
Keywords: Mac clone amiga roms
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Date: 27 Oct 89 04:01:48 GMT
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In article _ seymour@milton.acs.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) writes:
>there is a MAc Clone: the Amiga (no, i don't have one)
>They do it by using old Mac 128kROMs to provide the system calls.
>The three parts: Mac-compatible floppy drive, external circuit card
>and the ROM set total about $500 in the magazines.
>
>how they get the ROMs in commercial quantities, i do not know...
>

If you don't have an Amiga, how do you know it's a Mac clone?
If you did have one, you would know it isn't.
I've used one program that was ported from an Amiga. Let me say that a
same or similiar processor does not a clone make. I had to type in
file names by full path name.  No windows, nothing, period.

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