[X4U] Windows on Mac Fact

Aron Spencer aron at r8ix.com
Sat Jan 14 08:38:11 PST 2006


No they didn't. They just misunderestimated the difficulty of cloning  
it. There were lawsuits over the first (compaq) clones, and the  
cloners had to show that they were created in a "clean" environment,  
with no access to BIOS code, just duplication of functionality.

On Jan 14, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Jim Robertson wrote:

>  Part of what made the PC engulf
> the Mac in marketshare was the fact that IBM told anyone who  
> listened how to
> make BIOS and welcomed them to do so.

Aron S. Spencer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Management
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ 07102




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