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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 10:58:10 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 11:08:18 JST Thomas 🔭✨
This is from 40 years ago, when computers came with manuals in ring binders designed by famous designers
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 11:14:16 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@Silversalty this one is for DOS not the PC itself but goes into a ton of detail, like programming device drivers
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Silversalty (silversalty@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 11:14:17 JST Silversalty
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The original IBM PC tech reference manual included the BIOS code that allowed for a broad development of the PC. I think it was only Gates' Basic that was 'protected.'GWBasic and Phoenix BIOS.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12018/why-did-ibm-make-the-pc-bios-source-code-public
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