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From: tubman@sask.UUCP (Jim Tubman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Tandy Mac Clone?
Message-ID: <1044@sask.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 20:29:55 GMT
Organization: The Computer-Guided Diagnosis Project
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This talk of Tandy producing a Macintosh clone doesn't sound completely
absurd.  The programmer's interface to the Macintosh is very well specified
in terms of operating system calls, and it would surely be no great trick to
read and write Mac disks.  Tandy is a big enough company that it could put
the appropriate resources into reverse-engineering the Mac OS, and into any
resulting legal battle.

It would be interesting to hear what the folks at Apple have to say about
this, but there is no way in the world that their lawyers would let them say
anything.

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