Re: none

[Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>]

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.

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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.