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I have a copy of this same book, that's how I know.

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.