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Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition
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Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition

by Owen Linzmayer
January 2004
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
344 pages
13h 15m
English
No Starch Press
Content preview from Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition
The Clone Quandary
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vendor. The two companies had been working together since April 1986
to package Apple’s Mac II and Apollo’s Domain operating system as a low-
end workstation. Apollo executives were set to board a plane for Silicon
Valley to sign the contract committing them to buying 40,000 Mac IIs
when Sculley backed out at the last moment because he felt that Apollo’s
star was fading in the ascent of rival Sun Microsystems. He was right. Sun
went on to dominate the workstation market, and Apollo was eventually
acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
By the time Apple sued Microsoft on March 17, 1988, for similarities
between Windows and the
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