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From: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Cooling down (more on IBM PS/2)
Message-ID: <1089@csib.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 15:10:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 14 15:10:31 1987
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Reply-To: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
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In article <3232@watdcsu.UUCP> rhubbs@watdcsu.UUCP (R.Hubbs - Independent Studies) writes:
>BTW does anyone ever wonder why there are no Mac clones on the market.
>     I can't figure it out, except that Apple just loves to sue people,
>     but that might have nothing to do with it.
>
To clone a PC requires mostly hardware work and not that much of it.  The
PC also uses standard parts.  The BIOS is a relativly small piece of code
and so easy to duplicate.

For the Mac, however, duplicating the ROM is the problem.
To duplicate it is a major programming effort, with an upward moving target
as well.  Your looking at several person-years worth of effort.  To
clone the Mac is the equivalent of cloning not only the PC but Windows as
well.

Jerry Whitnell
Communications Solutions, Inc.