Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site drivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!drivax!holloway From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: macintosh software on the atari 520/1040ST Message-ID: <373@drivax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Apr-86 14:48:39 EST Article-I.D.: drivax.373 Posted: Thu Apr 3 14:48:39 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Apr-86 11:22:10 EST References: <8603312048.AA04645@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> <1297@ism780c.UUCP> Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA Lines: 25 In article <1297@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes: >> However the obstacle facing mass production is the approval of >> Apple, which seems to be necessary in order for this company to >> distribute their product with the Macintosh ROMs. Wouldn't it be >> possible for them to sell the cartridge without the ROMs and let >> the buyer purchase and install them? > >Yes, they could sell the cartridge without the ROMs, but where is >the purchaser going to buy them? Go to Macintosh dealers. Tell them you want to buy the ROMs. They'll sell them to you. But Apple may start requiring dealers to ask for serial numbers, so you'd have to know someone with a Mac to get them. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Whatever I write are not the opinions or policies of Digital Research, Inc.,| |and probably won't be in the foreseeable future. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Bruce Holloway ....!ucbvax!hplabs!amdahl!drivax!holloway (I'm not THAT Bruce Holloway, I'm the other one.)