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The IBM PC was the first computer IBM made that used entirely off the shelf chips except one: the BIOS The BIOS chip was just copied outright for the first clo
by klondike_ 5y ago
The IBM PC was the first computer IBM made that used entirely off the shelf chips except one: the BIOS
The BIOS chip was just copied outright for the first clones, but that was ruled illegal in court so later compatibles reverse engineered the code and made their own.