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Amiga laptop

    29-Dec-91 01:45:09
Sb: #44668-Amiga laptop
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Jeff Schweiger 74236,1645
Jeff, While the ROMs and disks can be purchased from dealers (via the upgrade kits)…they may not legally be used in anything except an Amiga computer produced by Commodore. IF the only way to get a product to perform its intended task (in this case, for the phantom laptop to run)…then it's illegal to produce that product. Thus this mysterious clone company isn't even allowed to produce it. And even if they somehow or other got around that problem…the certainly couldn't tell folks how to install Commodore ROMs and software on their machines…because that'd clearly be a violation. Thus…it's a non-issue until someone can get the courts to rule that companies can't produce hardware (chips) and/or software licenses that limit their use to "company machines" only. Don