24 Jan
2004
24 Jan
'04
12:02 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
Sent: 25 January 2004 01:46
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: Who was first?
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Witchy wrote:
Sadly that's the one most people care about.
> > 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."
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.
As I think we all know, it's not the innovators that get the recognition per
se, but the people that make the most noise. I got my first Osborne 1 last
week and there's nothing remarkable about it; hells, it looks like a
repackaged TRS80 Model III. Like you said in an email, it wasn't the first
portable by a long chalk but which one does everyone remember?
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