Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!ee.udel.edu From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: abcfd20 uploads (was Re: ProTracker on FTP) Message-ID: <33932@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 19 Oct 90 01:49:45 GMT References: <1990Oct17.202058.16301@hoss.unl.edu> <520@cbmger.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: nigel.ee.udel.edu In article <520@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: >At least for the Commodore PC clones, I can tell you that IBM actually >tried hard to sue us for pirating, back then in 1985 when we brought >them out. But we could prove that the BIOS (and this is the only part >you could sue someone) was developed on our own and the case was >settled. I've heard that IBM also patented much of the hardware, including the interface between the keyboard and main box, and the interface between the 8086 and the 8087. I wonder if all the companies making PC clones have aquired lisences or what? -- Darren -- --- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware --- ----- Network Protocols, Graphics, Programming Languages, Formal Description Techniques (esp. Estelle), Coffee -----