Free BIOS (was Resources for DOS (was: DOS Compatable OS))

[Chuck Guzis]

On 12/16/2005 at 7:26 PM Scott Stevens wrote:

>Is the Phoenix BIOS source code published anywhere, or was the
>greatly heralded 'Phoenix reverse engineers the BIOS and frees us
>from IBM' move really a 'closing of the source?'

I don't know that Phoenix has ever published their BIOS sources for
anything--including the video cards.

Let's not forget that the Taiwanese government also funded a
reverse-engineered XT BIOS for use by their budding PC industry.

There was a book out at one time with an entire BIOS written in C.   My
moldy brain won't identify it precisely, but I seem to recall that Mitch
Waite had something to do with it--or maybe not.  Annabooks, maybe?

Cheers,
Chuck