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From: hagan@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: RE: Nutek Roms and apple
Message-ID: <13303.280f36b0@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 19 Apr 91 18:28:00 GMT
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In regard to NuTek, as far as i can tell (from the infromation in Macworld,
i believe) they are not planning on making a macintosh clone, but have
cloned the roms, and would intend on selling the right of use of their
rom in a potential cloner's machine, much like what happened with the
IBM PC bios a while back.

my personal feelings towards this is that even if their roms aren't
100% compatable with the 512K ones, if they are comaptable with the 256K
or 128K roms, then they will have a good selling potential. I hope that Apple,
instead of suing (bad, they need to put their money into R&D, not 
lawuits) would come out, and license their roms. This will create a similar
competition, but, potential cloners would probably opt for the apple
roms, as they would *know* that they are compatable. I feel that if a
situation like that ensued, we, the users of technology will benefit 
greatly from the competition, for that is where the greatest leaps
of technology come from.

someone mentioned 32 bit clean roms upgrades for the SE/30, if apple doesn't
provide,and NuTek roms work as well as your 256K roms, why not buy the
NuTek product, it seems like a good deal to me.


just my $799.95 + 5% thought tax for residents of taxachussetts.

--craig hagan     Hagan@picard.ecs.umass.edu