Re: none

[Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>]

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...

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