Den Wed, 9 Jan 2019 01:49:28 +0000 skrev smf <smf@null.net>: > > On 09/01/2019 01:17, Jim Brain wrote: > > If you recall, Compaq was the first "clone" > > Columbia Data Products (MPC 1600) and Eagle Computer (Eagle PC) would > disagree. > > The Compaq Portable came soon after. At the time, companies that had more at stake didn't dare to make a "too compatible" PC. It would be interesting if some documents from the days of "MS-DOS computers" were a thing. Some electronics magazine made a kit to build a kind-of-almost PC motherboard with a true ISA bus, but they used different I/O stuff, like the floppy controller and serial ports that you would expect to find on an 8085 or maybe Z80 based CP/M computer. I don't know if the price of the components differed a lot, but most likely it was to avoid being sued by IBM. At that time, MS-DOS weren't the obvious choice and IIRC the documentation mostly talks about CP/M-86. -- (\_/) Copy the bunny to your mails to help (O.o) him achieve world domination. (> <) Come join the dark side. /_|_\ We have cookies.Received on 2019-01-10 22:00:03
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