27 Mar
2008
27 Mar
'08
7:44 p.m.
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:12:02 -0500
From: Randy Dawson
IBM's software would not run on a machine that did
not have "copyright
IBM" in the BIOS.
hahaha their workaround made them the most compatible clone.
Actually, a lot of people spent a lot of time reverse-engineering the
IBM BIOS. You really don't get a sense of this until you realize
that Phoenix not only made sure that the functionality of the BIOS
routines was the same, but that the routines themselves were located
at the same place in memory.
I wonder why this wasn't done with the Mac ROMs? Fear of Apple
suing? Anyone know for certain?
Cheers,
Chuck