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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FreeTerm 2.0 -- Doesn't work under MagicSac?
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Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 17:26:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 17:26:24 1987
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In article <4254@ihlpg.ATT.COM> tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter) writes:
>
>First,  the  ROMS are  quite  readily  available.

This may be true, but the 64K ROMs are no longer being produced.  This means
the number of ROMs is fixed, of which some have been returned to Apple
already.  I suppose people could be copying the ROMs; if so, they are doing
this illegally, and our Legal Department would like to talk to them. 

>Second,  Apple people have been helping the Magic Sac's developer
>to   improve   the  product.   In fact,  there  is talk that with
>the help he has been getting from Apple he might reverse  himself
>and  produce  a  128K   ROMs   version  after  all  (he  had said

I find it difficult to believe that Apple (as a company) is helping improve
the Magic Sac.  I have read that Andy Hertzfeld helped (I don't know if this
is true or not), but he is not an Apple employee and doesn't represent Apple
at all.  

I don't agree with the logic that improving Magic Sac helps Apple.  It
encourages people to buy Atari hardware instead of Macintoshes, which is
directly against Apple's interests.  The number of Magic Sacs in the world
is very small, so it doesn't influence software developers either.  

If Apple was supporting this, there would be press releases, articles, etc.
so that everyone would know about it.  

-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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