A Short History Lesson
If the point hasn't been made clearly enough elsewhere in this tome, let's underscore it here: All things Macintosh have changed radically in the past couple of years. When the last edition of The Macintosh Bible appeared, dozens of computers on the market were capable of running the Mac OS. Some of these computers were made by Apple, and others bore the names of such companies as Power Computing, Umax, Motorola, DayStar, Radius, APS, and PowerTools. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple as interim CEO in 1997, the licenses required to continue the manufacture of these “clones” were unceremoniously killed. Jobs made no secret of the fact that the cloners were taking sales away from Apple and that Apple would no longer stand ...
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