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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware MAC
Summary: Mac Toolbox Clone
Message-ID: <4748eda1.14a1f@force.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 15:17:50 GMT
References: <3395@brazos.Rice.edu> <4476@druwy.ATT.COM>
Organization: gte
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In article <4476@druwy.ATT.COM>, dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore) writes:
> 
> 	No company has decided that the time and expense (at least one
> year, at least 10 or 20 programmers, plus lawyers, and Apple will
> sue when you get done) is worth the expected return.
> 
> 
> 
> 				Dan Moore
> 				AT&T Bell Labs
> 				Denver
> 				dlm@druwy.ATT.COM

Dan, I thought that I read about a company that wrote a Mac Toolbox clone
for the IBM PC. supposedly, any C code that strictly adhered to the Mac
Toolbox rules could be recompiled on an IBM PC. And with suitable PC
hardware (color monitor, mouse, or whatever), the application program
would execute identically on the PC as on the Mac.

Now, if the ENTIRE PC market isn't big enough to warrant such a mac Toolbox
clone, than maybe the USA Atari ST/TT market is! :-) :-) :-)

Anyway, I read about this about a year ago, but haven't heard any more.
So, either the product didn't exist or Apple simply bought the company.

Someone could make a good profit by simply STARTING a Mac Toolbox clone,
and than selling out to Apple Corp!! :-) ? :-(



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