Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)

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From: co... CoLL
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00

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oh contrare, in 1995 compaq tried to reverse engineer mac, but it was
a waste of there money just like you said it would be so they quit
making them since no one would by them and they didnt publisize
enough.





On 12 Feb 1997 15:39:41 GMT, chr...@lexis-nexis.com (Christopher C.
Wood) wrote:

>In article <5dqji5$n...@morgoth.sfu.ca>, rcou...@sfu.ca (Ryan John Cousineau) writes:
>[ Assertion by Mark Sutton, supported by Michael Edelman, that IBM let
>  other manufacturers clone the IBM PC... ]
>
>|> Quick history lesson though: IBM didn't "let" anyone copy the
>|> architecture for free. They, for reasons of cost, built a very open
>|> platform with a BIOS that was relatively easy to reverse-engineer
>|> (as opposed to the Apple II or Mac ROMs, the former being clearly
>|> off-limits after a lawsuit or two, and the latter never really
>|> being sucessfully cloned; I don't understand the reasons
>|> precisely).
>
>Nobody has thought that reverse-engineering Mac ROMs was worth the
>effort.  They contain a lot of software, and would require a very
>expensive effort to reverse engineer.  And then, when Apple updates
>the OS, you'd have a lot of work to do to keep customer's happy.  I
>would never think of buying a "Clone" of a Macintosh, if I couldn't
>see how the machine would be supported in the future.
>
>Recall that PC-DOS came from Microsoft, and they (eventually) started
>selling the same version of the OS to anyone who would pay.  This was
>never the case with the IBM PC.
>
>Chris
>-- 
>Speaking only for myself, of course.
>Chris Wood    chr...@lexis-nexis.com   ca...@CFAnet.com

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Subject: Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)
Date: 1997/02/12
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