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From: millert@tramp.Colorado.EDU (MILLER TODD C)
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Subject: Re: No More Mac ROMs?
Keywords: Mac cleanroom ROMS
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.163803.5032@csn.org>
Date: 13 Feb 91 16:38:03 GMT
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In article <1991Feb12.200517.18167@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
>
>Am I anyone?   On the cover of Infoworld, dated Jan 28, 1991, lower right:
>Story about how Nutek Computers is coming out with Mac clones based on their
>own ROMS, developed under cleanroom conditions (I hope everyone knows how
>that works...the people who code the ROMS never see Apple code, but the people
>who check compatibility have whatever they want).  The other gimmick is that
>screen displays are equivalent rather than identical, and that some of the 
>system software may be internally different in their machines.

And they licenced the motif GUI to avoid any look + feel lawsuits...

 - Todd
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