Semi-OT: Interesting or unusual PC Compatibles?

[Scott Quinn]

> Now, of course, such an effort would be in violation of DMCA, but it
> worked back then.  I'm surprised that no one did that with the Mac
> ROMs--anyone know why not?

Probably because they would also then need to clone the system software 
as well, a much bigger task for a much smaller (potential) market. 
Apple would have been much less likely to deal with clone makers than 
Microsoft was. While the system software was made freely available in 
the early years, it is unlikely it would have stayed that way if clone 
makers had been successful.

For a brief period, NewTek did have a Macintosh clone with a 68030 and 
system software that was a hybrid of System 6 and System 7, with a user 
interface based on Motif. It suffered the same problems as the 1st - 
gen IBM clones as far as compatibility.