On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:39 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2012-05-30 14:37, James Knott wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Back in those days, it was common to provide such info. However, Compaq's problem was that it was copyrighted, which meant they couldn't just copy it.
IIRC, only the bios was (partly?) copyrighted, the hardware was not.
But try getting IBM PC DOS to work without a BIOS. That did not work. And anyone that provided a cloned PC did so after Compaq reverse engineered the BIOS and showed that it could be done. Previous to that, only IBM made IBM-compatible PCs that could run IBM PC DOS and IBM PC DOS applications. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org