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From: steve@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cloning the new IBMs without violating copyrights
Message-ID: <151@edm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-May-87 09:17:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: edm.151
Posted: Sat May  2 09:17:23 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 5-May-87 01:18:20 EDT
References: <766@vaxwaller.UUCP> <2643@phri.UUCP> <3087@diku.UUCP> <489@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB.
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Summary: Who cares?? Most IBM software never really sold anyways!

> In article <3087@diku.UUCP> thorinn@diku.UUCP (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) writes:
> >  I was told (by a salesperson, but it still may contain some truth) that one
> >of the main obstacles to making a fully compatible clone was this:
> >  When you use a System/2 as terminal equipment against an IBM mainframe, one
> >of the commands in the protocol says "Please send the copyright message in
> >your ROM;" the mainframe checks this against whatever it is on a System/2,
> >and won't communicate if it's not the same.
The current software doesn't do that, and trying that sort of bull would also
freeze out older IBM (blue) machines... (then again -- IBM just might be that
stupid...). Also: It would only be software written BY IBM that would do things
like that.
  Tell me: How many programs actually written by IBM do you have?? (Hint: MS-DOS
was written by Microsoft.)

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