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> Because IBM’s BIOS was soon reverse engineered Someone might also have read the BIOS source code listing that IBM provided: https://archive.org/details/IBMP

• pjmlp 1y ago
  Anyone doing that was tainted due to copyright law.
  • musicale 1y ago
    As you indicate, in clean-room design the implementation is done by a different team from those who examined the original system and wrote the spec (which is vetted): > Typically, a clean-room design is done by having someone examine the system to be reimplemented and having this person write a specification. This specification is then reviewed by a lawyer to ensure that no copyrighted material is included. The specification is then implemented by a team with no connection to the original examiners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design The article above makes some interesting points about whether clean-room design is actually necessary.