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Back in the day, IBM published technical documentation (and assembly source? It's been a while) on the 5150 Personal Computer BIOS. The first PC clone BIOSes w
by McGlockenshire 6y ago
Back in the day, IBM published technical documentation (and assembly source? It's been a while) on the 5150 Personal Computer BIOS. The first PC clone BIOSes were created by having a team re-document how the BIOS worked from IBM's docs, and then having an entirely separate team create new code from that documentation.
How useful would this technique be to the ReactOS and Wine teams? Are there things that they don't know how to make work correctly that this source leak could help them with?
- rzzzt 6y agoThey are doing this (clean room implementation) right now, and very-very-very thoroughly trying to avoid coming in contact with source code leaks in any shape or form: https://reactos.org/wiki/Audit https://reactos.org/wiki/Audit
- thrownaway954 6y agoThey were called red books ;) i loved reading through them even though i didn't know assembly and often the content was waaaaaaaay over my fragile little mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Redbooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Redbooks
- fizixer 6y agoI learnt about this technique in Triumph of the Nerds[0] long time ago. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398