1 Oct
2001
1 Oct
'01
8:11 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:24:40AM -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
So does that mean that BASICA (ROM + disk additions) and GWBASIC (disk only)
shared features or even code?
-- Derek
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote:
If memory
serves the one real thing that cloners couldn't duplicate, maybe
due to copyright, was the ROM BASIC but that they'd duplicated everything
else including the BIOS or a very good part of it. That pretty much led to
IBM losing a lot in the PC market.
It should be pointed out that MS owned the copyright to BASIC, which is
probably why it wasn't included on clones. They would have had to obtain
a license from MS.