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Depends on context. In the early days many s100 users assembled the boards themselves and doubtless wouldn't have blinked any eyelid at hacking 8080/z80 bios co
by blater 10y ago
Depends on context. In the early days many s100 users assembled the boards themselves and doubtless wouldn't have blinked any eyelid at hacking 8080/z80 bios code if they needed to (I remember the first kid at school to get a computer around that time, programmable with physical switches, binary LED display). By the time the commercial software market for CP/M became established with killer apps like word star, the users would have been rightly horrified by bios hacking.
- yuhong 10y agoOf course, MS was also not as willing to provide the MS-DOS OAKs/BAKs to random users than DR was with CP/M. When they finally stopping copying the model before OS/2 1.0 was released, they still did things like putting the floppy and hard drive drivers in the same file.
- EvanAnderson 10y agoReference for people like me who didn't recognize the acronym OAK: "OEM Adaptaion Kit", <http://www.os2museum.com/wp/ms-dos-oaks/> http://www.os2museum.com/wp/ms-dos-oaks/>
- yuhong 10y agoAnd BAK stands for Binary Adaptation Kit.