Power 100 Review and Mac OS Clone Commentary (1995)

Original text by Tim Warner, Macworld, August 1995. Additional clone cancellation fallout information from Macworld, October 1997.

Original Power Computing magazine ad.

Clearly the Mac OS clone program failed due to the absence of discount furniture warehouse-style radio advertising.

Gary Davidian: “As far as I know, nobody ever made a CHRP machine.”

“Mr. OS/2” David Barnes talking about IBM’s intention to support Mac applications running on top of Workplace OS.

IBM’s repeated attempts to run all existing OSes on top of one OS and one hardware architecture lead to the incorrect assumption that PowerPC Macintoshes would run DOS and Windows right out of the box. Insignia Solutions’ SoftWindows marketing department did what came naturally.

The Motorola StarMax 4000-series motherboard, designed and manufactured entirely by Apple.

Jean-Louis Gassee: “We used PReP as the basis for the design of the BeBox…”