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In article <4757@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Let's see you write a free IBM-compatible BIOS. But why should you? It's
>not of any interest to computer nerds.

Whanna bet?  Does anyone out there remember this 8088 based machine
that Digital (should be DEC) produced called the Rainbow?  It ran
MS-DOS, but not PC-DOS.  It was very uncompatable with PC's.  Then
this dude (Dan Pleasanton?) wrote this nifty little program called
Code Blue.  Basically, it was an IBM-compatible BIOS that you loaded
into your Rainbow and made it look like a PC.

He started out in the public domain, but quickly realized that he
could make some doe with his code.  So the original public domain
version had lots of bugs in it.  It was very hard to get the source to
it.  It crashed your machine.  It didn't work too well.  However, he
cleaned up the code a lot and now it is really slick.  He sells it for
around $100.  Which is reasonable, given today's money hungary market
place.

Never have heard of anybody sueing him over the look and feel of his
BIOS interface :-).

The point is that there is always somebody doing something that you
never thought would be useful because you were wearing blinders.
Every body wears them, but few realize it.

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Warner Losh	warner@twg.com (formerly warner@hydrovax.nmt.edu)
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