This post is in and of itself a hoax. Proof: the author claims to have been having sex... with a real woman! Everybody knows that/.'ers don't do that! </HUMOR>
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Correct. They "clean roomed" them. They had a group, who swore under oath (affadavit) that they had never seen the original IBM BIOS.
Then they had another group which thoroughly analyzed the IBM listings and created a detailed specification (i.e. INT XX, AH=yy does this, with this output, etc...). They then handed this specification (containing only a blackbox description of the IBM BIOS) to the coders, who then wrote a BIOS to that specification. It passed a court test, IIRC, and is now the standard reverse engineering methodology if copyright infringement (non-DMCA) may be an issue.
Well, let's see... the RIAA's SDMI challenge people threatened to sue or prosecute Prof. Felten if he gave a talk at USENIX. I'd say that's a pretty chilling effect on research and academic speech.
Compaq would have been sued out of existance upon re-engineering IBM's PC BIOS, regardless of whether they disassembled the code or not
Just a small nit. They didn't even need to disassemble the code. The original PC, PC/XT and PC/AT's came with manuals that included full schematics and BIOS listings!
You're thinking of a NEC V20. In the XT (and clones) the crystal was on the motherboard. Of course, he could have replaced the clock crystal. But the input clock was NOT on the chip. The speed up when you popped in a V20 was because the chip was more efficiently designed internally than the 8088.
I've never had much luck with OC'ing intel stuff either,
WTF are you talking about? <COMIC-BOOK-GUY>Intel made the Most. Overclockable. Chip. Ever.</COMIC-BOOK-GUY> The Celeron 300A. You could OC it to 450 with zero problems whatsoever.
Movie industry too. See Coming To America. Buchwald was supposed to get a percentage of the profits. It grossed $143M or so, which was major bucks in the 1988 time frame, yet Paramount claimed it never turned a profit.
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In summary, the headline needs more TLAs to confuse the FBI, CIA, DHS, NSA, DEA, and ATF!
Dude! I remember pumping the lantern! The other question is... what do the astronauts do when the mantle breaks?
I thought it was Michael Nesmith's!
we're losing 3 billion annually"
Actually, it was only 1 billion, but some of the movies were really big, so they counted as three movies
Doesn't seem to be a US Government org either.
Looks to be one of those evil global transnational corps(tm) that everybody loves to protest.
This post is in and of itself a hoax. Proof: the author claims to have been having sex... with a real woman! Everybody knows that
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I believe that was his point :-P
Correct. They "clean roomed" them. They had a group, who swore under oath (affadavit) that they had never seen the original IBM BIOS.
Then they had another group which thoroughly analyzed the IBM listings and created a detailed specification (i.e. INT XX, AH=yy does this, with this output, etc...). They then handed this specification (containing only a blackbox description of the IBM BIOS) to the coders, who then wrote a BIOS to that specification. It passed a court test, IIRC, and is now the standard reverse engineering methodology if copyright infringement (non-DMCA) may be an issue.
Well, let's see... the RIAA's SDMI challenge people threatened to sue or prosecute Prof. Felten if he gave a talk at USENIX. I'd say that's a pretty chilling effect on research and academic speech.
Sorry. Engines are computerized.
Compaq would have been sued out of existance upon re-engineering IBM's PC BIOS, regardless of whether they disassembled the code or not
Just a small nit. They didn't even need to disassemble the code. The original PC, PC/XT and PC/AT's came with manuals that included full schematics and BIOS listings!
So do these guys get the prize? Wasn't there a cash prize for Linux without a modchip?
has a tiny warning label on it,
My guess is that's why the proposed legistlation requires them to be "prominently labeled ".
Of course, it all depends on your definition of "prominently", doesn't it?
Thank you! Nobody else seems to remember that!
Clinton inherited the Somalia mess from Bush I.
. However, organs tend to be juicier with pulp exploding in your mouth.
A bit of a Freudian slip there, eh?
Ye canna break the laws o' Physics!
You're thinking of a NEC V20. In the XT (and clones) the crystal was on the motherboard. Of course, he could have replaced the clock crystal. But the input clock was NOT on the chip. The speed up when you popped in a V20 was because the chip was more efficiently designed internally than the 8088.
I've never had much luck with OC'ing intel stuff either,
WTF are you talking about? <COMIC-BOOK-GUY>Intel made the Most. Overclockable. Chip. Ever.</COMIC-BOOK-GUY> The Celeron 300A. You could OC it to 450 with zero problems whatsoever.
Yep. Ben Sargent on Patriot II.
cool! I didn't realize that!
WinFile.exe was still in NT, but doesn't appear to be in 2K.
A start menu divided by Program Type (graphics, sounds, internet, etc) and then containing just individual programs makes much more sense.
Congratulations! You've just reinvented the Windows 3.x Program Manager! I knew I wasn't the only one who liked that!
Nah, they got Taco to edit the article!
Movie industry too. See Coming To America. Buchwald was supposed to get a percentage of the profits. It grossed $143M or so, which was major bucks in the 1988 time frame, yet Paramount claimed it never turned a profit.
Remember, that RFC1149 compliant protocols generally include an audit trail of droppings!
b) What is the phrase or action that will get the developers to actually do my bidding? I'm very busy and quite imperious.
I suspect that large amounts of cash thrown at them will cause them to bump the priority of your request...