[GTALUG] pre-talk survey

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 06:31:43AM -0400, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
> Dell reverse engineered IBM's bios and became a juggernaut. I'm pretty sure
> that it would be easier to write the deeptruth algorithm if everybody had
> access to the deep fake toolset so I filled out the survey accordingly.

Columbia Data Products did it first, then Compaq did it, then Phoenix
and AMI (who of course sold their BIOS to other companies to use).
Not sure Dell even existed at the time.  Well apparently it started in
1984 as PC's Limited selling machines from parts (motherboard made by
Excel so using whatever clone BIOS they were using).  A few years later
it became named Dell.  It appears they never did any BIOS reverse
engineering, since others had already done that and you could just buy
it from them.

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len Sorensen