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It's ancient history but Compaq only reverse-engineered the IBM PC BIOS for their own use. Some other clone companies directly copied the IBM BIOS and got sued
by huxley 5y ago
It's ancient history but Compaq only reverse-engineered the IBM PC BIOS for their own use.
Some other clone companies directly copied the IBM BIOS and got sued, so it was Phoenix that provided the first 3rd party PC-compatible provably clean-room BIOS implementation.
- indigodaddy 5y agoAh, didn’t know that thanks for the extra tidbit!