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From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: No More Mac ROMs?
Message-ID: <1810@mwca.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 91 18:08:38 GMT
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Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Santa Clara, CA
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In article <5688084@nuthaus.UUCP> nut@nuthaus.UUCP (Adam G. Tilghman) writes:
>  Perhaps with the rumoured Mac OS clone coming soon at a dealer
>near you, Spectre will be saved.  It seems to me that an intelligent
>company selling a cloned edition of the Mac ROMs would not halt
>their distribution to a paying customer (maybe GBS could even make
>the entire thing into a card and not bother with the cart!).

On the other hand, I suspect the cloned Mac ROMs will be the 256K ROMs, which
both Spectre and the ST cartridge port are currently unable to deal with...I
too, however, hope a reasonable solution will present itself to keep Gadgets
viable.
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