Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!tingley.cs.unm.edu!ctm From: ctm@tingley.cs.unm.edu (Clifford T. Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: ROMs (was Apple = avarice ??) Message-ID: <1990Sep27.200237.4963@unmvax.cs.unm.edu> Date: 27 Sep 90 20:02:37 GMT References: Sender: news@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (The News service) Reply-To: ctm@tingley.cs.unm.edu (Clifford T. Matthews) Distribution: comp Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 48 In article , gow@sakari.mrceg (Ed Gow) writes: |> |> |> >NO MORE ROM-MATES. Not to be outdone by IBM, Apple Computer first bought |> >Outbound's laptop technology and licensed it back to the Colorado |> >lap-Mac maker, and now they've deliberately shut down the legal suppy |> >of Mac ROMs for these and other machines. |> > As of September 15, Apple stopped selling Mac ROMs to anyone, unless they |> >are in exchange for a "broken" set. Previously, Apple dealers and service |> >centers could buy as many ROMs as they liked at $120 per set, but too many |> >were ending up in Outbounds and in Mac emulators for other computers." |> |> My question is this, how does the Mac buying public feel about this |> sort of business practice? Personally I feel like, to put it bluntly, |> they've been bending us over and now they're sticking it to us. Since |> there are now many other good GUIs coming out (in spite of Apple |> lawyers' best efforts) can they afford this? |> |> -Ed |> -- |> ------ Ed Gow ------ uwm!mrsvr!gemed!sakari!gow ----------- |> |> My opinions are NOT those of GE. |> MGB - The most fun you can have in a car without a back seat Greetings from ARDI, With ROMlib-V1.0 shipping we are now concentrating on Executor and Filesystem and device driver work. We intend to manufacture ROMs that will allow clones and portables to be made without any Apple hardware. At our current pace we hope to have a true HFS implementation (that reads and writes blocks directly instead of using the UNIX filesystem) in beta by 12/1/90. We'll still have to do device drivers and stuff before we can even cook 'play' ROMs but that's the type of work (UNIX device drivers and boot ROMs) I did for a living before founding ARDI. Clifford T. Matthews Abacus Research and Development, Inc. 1650 University Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87102 (505) 766-9115 [ARDI is not affiliated with the University of New Mexico]