How Compaq reportedly built an IBM-compatible BIOS without copying IBM’s code
A post says Compaq separated engineers who studied IBM’s BIOS from those who wrote new code using only a specification of how it worked.
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A post credits a clean-room process for the Compaq Portable’s IBM compatibility: one team documented how IBM’s BIOS behaved, while another wrote a new BIOS from that specification. The author says the portable shipped in 1983 and argues that a similar pattern is taking place in AI.
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