Re: A86: very very odd

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Subject: Re: A86: very very odd
From: Trent Lillehaugen <tllilleh@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 18:08:15 -0800
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> They are probably afraid if too much documentation is released, some
> competitor might snatch it up and develop there own calcs. Its almost like
> when IBM gave away their schematics for the 80x86 or whatever.  On one side
> many programmers starting programming for the XT, on the other side the
> engineers started developing clones of the XT

    The first clones were made by reverse-engineering, not any released
schematics.

--
Trent Lillehaugen
Computer Engineering Major
California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
<http://www.calpoly.edu/~tllilleh/a86/a86.html>
<mailto:tllilleh@polymail.calpoly.edu>

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