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From: dwh@ataritx.uucp (Dave Hanna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: No More Mac ROMs?
Summary: Nutek claims a "clean room" clone of Mac OS
Keywords: Mac, Nutek
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.153506.10744@ataritx.uucp>
Date: 12 Feb 91 15:35:06 GMT
References: <1991Feb9.140414.23054@contact.uucp> <3743.27b5839e@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Reply-To: dwh@ataritx.UUCP (Dave Hanna)
Organization: Atari Microsytems Corp., Dallas
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In article <3743.27b5839e@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:
>In article <1991Feb9.140414.23054@contact.uucp>, rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood) writes:
>> So, if it is true that Apple no longer allows the sale of Mac ROMs, is
>> the Spectre GCR dead? 
>
>Well, I have heard that a company has successfully cloned the Mac ROMs, 
>opening the doors to a flood of Mac clones. I don't know the name or 
>anything though, but this might be a ray of sunlight to the Mac emulation 
>world.
According to Electronic Engineering Times (Jan. 28, 1991, p. 10)
"Startup claims legal Mac-clone chip set",  the company, Nutek Computers,
claims to have developed a "Mac-like OS" in a software "clean room",
that is, where the developers had no access to Apple code.  The question
yet to be answered is whether or not their approach will actually
withstand a legal challenge.

In order to avoid the "look and feel" issue, the OS uses a Motif interface
instead of the Mac desktop.
>Ryan 'Gozar' Collins 				     rlcollins@miavx1.BITNET
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    Dave Hanna    Atari Microsystems Corp
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