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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II upgrade & an alternative
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Date: 30 Sep 88 18:42:00 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Sep 30 13:42:00 1988


Is it really true that the Apple superdrive won't WRITE MS-DOS
floppies -- it can only read them?  Is this restriction in hardware?

If so, then I guess all these claims of "an open MAC architecture"
were merely lip-service, because Apple intends to keep a closed
architecture for as long as possible.  The evil empire strikes again!


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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