I'm kind of surprised to still be alive. And married.
I put my keys on the top of my car, then searched for half an hour looking for them.
I knew a guy who reported his car stolen, then found it three days later, where he'd parked it.
OK, OK, you win.
snipped-for-privacy@attt.bizz presented the following explanation :
IBM never gave away the BIOS. In fact in the late 80s they paid good wages to some of us to protect their rights. :-Z Yes they did giveaway the OS.
OK, they sold it for $50.
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Guess what, John Larkin does just that on desktop machines.
No one does for laptops, damn few do it for desktops. But industrial computing platforms do this all the time. ISA machines are still available, just expensive.
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Poxy hell, neither one of you has your history right. That skinny kid from Seattle wrote a version of tinyBasic that ran on an OS he purchased from a couple of guys from Portland Oregon. IBM published the bios code, complete, with the earliest models reference manuals.
For that matter look up the history of Gary Kildall and IBM.
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