16 Dec
2005
16 Dec
'05
4:44 p.m.
On 12/16/2005 at 7:26 PM Scott Stevens wrote:
Is the Phoenix BIOS source code published anywhere, or
was the
greatly heralded 'Phoenix reverse engineers the BIOS and frees us
from IBM' move really a 'closing of the source?'
I don't know that Phoenix has ever published their BIOS sources for
anything--including the video cards.
Let's not forget that the Taiwanese government also funded a
reverse-engineered XT BIOS for use by their budding PC industry.
There was a book out at one time with an entire BIOS written in C. My
moldy brain won't identify it precisely, but I seem to recall that Mitch
Waite had something to do with it--or maybe not. Annabooks, maybe?
Cheers,
Chuck