On Tuesday 16 May 2006 03:30, Rogelio Serrano wrote: > On 5/16/06, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So ... 'free hardware' is a selling point. But I also acknowledge that > > a company needs to protect it's proprietary edge if it is investing in > > card or chip production. There are a number of well-defined strategies > > for implementing that balance though: license-delay schemes, proprietary > > enhancements (but with a solid free-licensed reference design), etc. > > > > Cheers, > > Terry > > You have to remember that the first pc was totally open. And a lot of > people earned a big pile of money.
Yep. WIth published sources etc. I think I still have a copy of the tech ref for the IBM PC. I learnt a lot from that code. Including the ability to see WHY things failed when they did & why not to pass certain values to bios routines. H _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
