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From: piper@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM (Piper Keairnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: NuTek Mac Clones
Message-ID: <97@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 91 21:29:47 GMT
Organization: Unisys - Roseville, MN
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Anyone read the article in MacWeek about a company called NuTek, who
has supposedly created a Macintosh-compatible machine from the ground
up including all hardware and software. To avoid Apple copyright
infringements they've worked in a "clean-room" and slapped on a Motif
interface. By the picture shown, it looks like the menu bars for the
applications will reside within the application's window as opposed to
being resident at the top of the screen.

Prices will be comparable to Apple's for a short while (due to low quantity
and startup costs I'm sure), but the competition is welcome as far as I'm
concerned. They say that they are prepared for a long drawn-out court
battle if that is what Apple want's to do. Question is, can they really make
it? I sure hope so...

[from MacWeek and probably mentioned somewhere on the net already]

Comments, questions, difficulties, confusions? Oh, release should be sometime
near the end of this year, and the interface software pictured may be on sale
by the end of first quarter (for about $100).

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