Timeline for Why did IBM make the PC BIOS source code public?
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| Aug 18, 2019 at 8:33 | comment | added | Mawg | One lives & learns. T o think that I had to read a retro computing forum to learn that :-) | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 16:42 | comment | added | Jeremy Friesner | @Mawg you hog a brook by diverting all of its water to irrigate your field. | |
| Aug 15, 2019 at 15:17 | comment | added | Mawg | "popular" assumption? How on earth does one "hog" a brook (or even tap a river? wouldn't your knuckles get wet?) ?? | |
| Aug 14, 2019 at 22:06 | comment | added | Mohair | One of my prized possessions when I was, you know, quite a bit younger, was a book that was a commented disassembly listing of Microsoft BASIC for the TRS-80. As I recall, it was missing the opcode for each line, so they wouldn't break copyright, but that was easy to fill in by hand. I learned so much from that book. I thought it was this one: classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/trs80/mirrors/pilot.ucdavis.edu/…, but this is a little different than the one I had | |
| Aug 14, 2019 at 20:47 | history | answered | user14981 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |