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From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
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Subject: Re: Nutek Roms and apple
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Date: 23 Apr 91 05:52:27 GMT
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breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach) writes:

>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.
>
OB> like in ms-dos world? naaaaah. The only ones who benefits are 
OB> the computers resellers who can sell the totally underqualified 
OB> user thousands of utilities improving shell and memory features 
OB> and hundredth of thousands hours of service in order to install 
OB> and maintain the machines. And think about what happened when 
OB> the bios was available. Now there are a couple of totally different 
OB> operating systems which all claim to be "compatible". Like DR-Dos, 
OB> Concurrent PC-DOS, DeskView, and so on. The User gets nothing 
OB> but confused. And everyone pirates Mircrosofts MS-DOS. Time will 
OB> come that they copy-protect it. 

wonderful, except:

NuTek isn't using the Apple Macintosh OS here.  They've cobbled together their own, with bits from here and pieces from there, and have created some firmware that uses these bits and pieces to do its work.  The NuTek chips aren't using Apple's Mac OS; rather, NuTek has gotten together an entirely different system which will allow stock-block off-the-shelf designed-for-the-Macintosh programs to run.

And that's their whole goal.  Be able to run your comfortable and familiar Word on a machine that costs a fraction of what a genyooeine Apple Macintosh costs.  People have been _printing_ their documents on printers which cost a fraction of the Apple LaserWriters; the next obvious step is to _create_ their documents on a non-Mac, doing it the Mac way all the while.

Any OS that Apple creates will continue to be useless on anything except a machine running Apple-controlled ROMs.  This has been the case, and will be the case.  So in fact, the Mac OS is _already_ copy-protected.

--Adam--
 
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