Re: none

[olcott <olcott@qwest.net>]

Copyright 1981,1982,1983 (April)
It does not seem to have an ISBN,
the IBM part number is 1502237

Dennis Jenkins wrote:

> olcott wrote:
> >
> > I have a copy of this same book, that's how I know.
>
> What is the publish/copyright date.  Heck, post the ISBN too!
>
> >
> > Dennis Jenkins wrote:
> >
> > > Greg Buchner wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In article <3A790033.A5671C33@qwest.net>, olcott <olcott@qwest.net>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > IBM published their BIOS source code...
> > > > > I am new to apples, thus they could have
> > > > > done the same...
> > > >
> > > > If IBM publishes their BIOS, it was after a company reverse engineered
> > > > it and won the lawsuit from IBM that tried to stop them.  IBM fought
> > > > cloning in the beginning and later realized they could do nothing about
> > > > it.
> > >
> > > Phoenix or award or someone reversed engineered the bios in 1984?  But I
> > > am a copy of the IBM-XT technical ref manual, and it has the full bios
> > > source cose listing (commented).  I'd have to check, but I think the
> > > copyright date of the book was 1981 or 1982.  Not sure...
> > >
> > > --
> > > dennis@usb.com                           Universal Savings Bank.
> > >
> > > The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering
> > > iron, a manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas.
>
> --
> dennis@usb.com                           Universal Savings Bank.
>
> The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering
> iron, a manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas.