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From: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Tandy Mac Clone?
Message-ID: <8404@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 88 22:46:31 GMT
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Reply-To: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Overheard among Cambridge Unix hacker types: "Phoenix WANTS to have
Mac compatible ROMs."

Also, I was at the satellite video roll out for the MicroExplorer. TI
and Apple are so lovey-dovey it hardly seems possible that TI would
compete against Apple. TI might concievably make a super-high-end
Macintosh to complement their high-end Explorer processor. They have
all the hardware (their NuBus 680x0-based Unix systems which are
already mated to Lisp processors). They would need the ROMs and to
write the i/o drivers.

This would fill a market need for TI, in that the Mac user interface
is probably the best thing that ever happened to Lisp machines and why
not use it throughout the model line. But this is a need that could be
filled by mating Explorer IIs to Macintoshes -- no need to sell (or
licence) the crown jewels. (In fact, it would seem that the software
that makes it possible for the MicroExplorer to live on the Mac II
NuBus would also work over an Ethernet link between a Mac II and a
full size Explorer II.)

-Zigurd
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