Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)

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From: t... Tim Smith
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <3303C3...@ingress.com>, Matthew Dowd  <md...@ingress.com> wrote:
>Wrong.  IBM did not let any one copy the the PC for free.  The BIOS had to be 
>reverse engineered.  The OS was available form Microsoft and others.

The source code to the IBM BIOS was printed in the manual.  It didn't have
to be reverse engineered.  What it did have to be was reimplemented, once
it was established that a BIOS was subject to copyright.

--Tim Smith

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From: t...@halcyon.com (Tim Smith)
Subject: Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)
Date: 1997/02/17
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