Re: [NTLK] Any way to decompile Palm .prc files?

From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Thu Nov 11 2004 - 11:21:39 PST

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On Nov 11, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Christopher J. Lowe wrote:
> as that would be copyright theft. Instead their
> engineers hooked up probes to the motherboard and watched what the BIOS
> did and how it behaved. It took them a little while, but eventually
> they
> had enough information that the programmers could write a BIOS which
> had
> the same function as the IBM one. Boom, the first PC clone was
> released,
> and it hasn't stopped since.

My memory is they licensed the bios from Phoenix... That was many moon
ago though.

Marty

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