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From: rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
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Subject: Re: Lexicor replies
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Date: 10 Mar 91 11:19:21 GMT
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In article <39994@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>BTW in answer to one comment about NewTeck not ever letting the 
>toaster move over onto other hardware platforms..?  While they 
>may never do this themselves the fact is that once they sell 
>their product to the general public the buyer can "move the 
>toaster " onto any platform they wish. Any attempt to prevent 
>this is a restraint of trade and restraint of private use...and is 
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>against the law.
> 

  Well, I'm not a lawyer, but Apple seems to get away with this all the
time. Apple has restricted reselling of Mac ROMs, Author's have restricted
reselling of their books.


 Marrying the Toaster to another computer isn't impossible, it's just hard.
The Toaster isn't just hardware, alot of the magic is done in software too.
Software that is written in assembler, and for a multitasking operating
system, along with an interprocess communication language called 'Arexx'.
The Hardware is also tighly coupled to the Amiga's custom chips (I surmise)
and the 3.57mhz NTSC signal generated by Agnus.

BTW, Lexicor spelled the Toaster's company name wrong. It's NewTek.