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Subject: [OT] was Re: 200 apple II clones confirmed
From: Lyrical Nanoha <lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:25:21 GMT
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On Wed, 5 Sep 2006, mdj wrote:

Well, the PC wasn't much more than Intels reference design after all.

The thing that made it a PC, IBMs firmware was never completely cloned
as far as I know, as the original machines included BASICA in ROM.
However you only really had to clone the Firmwares BIOS interface to
allow MS-DOS to boot.

Yeah, I have yet to see a clone with Cassette BASIC in the ROM though I'vebeen thinking of it, knowing where it sits in the BIOS memory map...


-uso.

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