[Gllug] Barbican website - accessibility issues

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Wed Nov 13 11:11:25 UTC 2002


Mike Brodbelt writes:

>IBM, in their rush to get a PC to market, used an off the shelf set of
>components, with the exception of the BIOS. Compaq cloned the BIOS

Minor nitpick... it was Phoenix that cloned the BIOS, using a
clean/dirty room approach. Compaq were the first to use the results
of that work to make an IBM compatible PC.

Tet

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