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Agree! I don't have an original AT, but that string appears nowhere in the ROM images I found. There is also a fairly accurate web-based emulator, and it doesn'
by rep_lodsb 3y ago
Agree! I don't have an original AT, but that string appears nowhere in the ROM images I found. There is also a fairly accurate web-based emulator, and it doesn't print this message:
https://www.pcjs.org/machines/pcx86/ibm/5170/cga/ https://www.pcjs.org/machines/pcx86/ibm/5170/cga/
I also doubt that IBM had anything to do with the development of Concurrent DOS, which AFAIK was based on earlier multitasking versions of CP/M. It's highly unlikely that IBM worked together with DR on a "secret" 16-bit protected mode OS, only to throw it away and then start over with OS/2, this time in collaboration with Microsoft.
- icedchai 3y agoMy dad had an original IBM AT at work, back in '85 or '86, and I don't remember seeing that message. I rebooted the machine several times. It was sure built like a tank though. And I loved that keyboard, even as a kid.