Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!psu-cs!hoofb
From: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Tandy Mac Clone?
Message-ID: <525@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 22:37:27 GMT
References: <1044@sask.UUCP>
Reply-To: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
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In article <1044@sask.UUCP> tubman@sask.UUCP (Jim Tubman) writes:
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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.

I love the rumors that fly around!!!  But this one is hard to believe.
A couple of weeks ago someone noted that Tandy was looking for
Macintosh programmers.  I poked around and discovered that Tandy is
going to do something with The Appletalk network.  This sounds like a
smooth thing to do.  After all PC's connect to the appletalk network.
	Bare in mind that I got this from a friend so the info might be
wrong, such is the life of a rumor.  But it sounds better than cloning
the mac.

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Bruce Hoof.
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