24 Jan
2004
24 Jan
'04
11:45 a.m.
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Witchy wrote:
I knew my post would get a response from you :o))
I will concede that Compaq was the first "practical" "large scale"
"commercial" compatible.
But it sure wasn't 100%, and I had owned several DOS machines
and written the first version of XenoCopy before Compaq released
their first model.
I used one of the first Compaqs (on loan from Compaq) when
I added the support for WRITING alien formats to XenoCopy.
I liked the machine a lot. (except the keyboard latches
had too short a throw and the handle was too soft)
Later, PC World used an earlier (1.0) version of XenoCopy
to demonstrate that NOTHING was completely compatible!
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
THAT explains it :) Compaq's was the first BIOS to
be 100% IBM-PC
compatible.
NO WAY.
99 44/100 % maybe.
"There can NEVER be 100% compatability without copyright infringement."