-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-05-30 12:47, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 12:30 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Indeed. And documented it, allowing many vendors to design hardware and software for it. Almost an open platform.
Not sure about the 'open' part. Compaq engineers were 'sealed in a room' and had to reverse engineer it using only the machine itself. This then allowed Compaq to make their own PC machines with their own BIOS that let DOS run. I do not think IBM expected anyone to do that. If they had I am sure they could have made the task more difficult. But I would still hesitate to call it open.
Dunno about Compaq, but I have the original PC documentation, and it included the bios code... schematics to do things... Lots of companies, many in Asia, cloned the PC, sold it cheaper, and improved on it, surely using that documentation. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/F/E0ACgkQIvFNjefEBxr0uACfURe4DDrymI5CapLnmmPifBL8 SEAAnin10e9nQZR8BAISetOXR9lf/8Zg =cJAZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org