Re: FSF won't help Apple (Re: Newsgroups closed)

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From: Mike Grenier
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1991 16:30

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From article <1991Aug1.145714@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com>, by mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Mike Jones):

> That's one view.... Another way of looking at it is to remember that IBM not
> only published complete hardware specs, they (we?) published the whole
> bloomin' BIOS in the OS manuals! Hard to get more open than that, eh? Gosh,


Another example of IBM's approach to open system is to see what they
did with the scsi interface on the RS6000.  Only IBM modified Exabyte
tape units will work with the RS6000 - the scsi driver sends bad
commands down the scsi bus that the Exabyte 8200 and 8500 tape drives
don't understand unless they are running special IBM firmware in them.
The scsi analyzer traces were previously posted to the comp.unix.aix
newsgroup.

Hard to get more close then that, eh?

    -Mike Grenier
     mike@atc.sp.unisys.com

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Subject: Re: FSF won't help Apple (Re: Newsgroups closed)
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