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From: carpente@corinth.uucp (Michael A. Carpenter OSBU North)
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Subject: Re: Is AMAX doomed?
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Date: 12 Oct 90 16:58:08 GMT
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Re: Buying a Mac and copying/using the ROMs for another computer (AMAX)

One of the current third-party Mac-ish portables works this way.  You 
buy the portable (not Apples, another company's) and take the ROMs out
of your MAC and put them in the portable.  Then you take your portable
and do whatever.  Now - when you want to use the regular MAC (which is
dead without ROMs), you connect the two via some special docking device
which allows the desktop Mac to use the ROMs from the portable (which 
originally came from the desktop Mac).

This is considered legal - at least Apple hasn't sued them yet.

Michael