Motorola Confirms: No More Apple Clones.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: September 12, 1997| Author: Mardesich, Jodi | Copyright information

CUPERTINO, Calif.--Sep. 12--Rest in peace, Mac clones.

Motorola Computer Group, the last of the large Macintosh clone vendors to come to terms with Apple Computer Inc. after Apple's controversial about-face on cloning, said Thursday it would stop making computers that run the Mac operating system.

Motorola, one of Apple's original partners in a historic 1991 alliance that also included IBM, will continue to make Power PC chips, which are the heart of ...

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