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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (33300)	11/8/1999 7:26:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Gerald, Thank you. You have confirmed my contention that the PC is an open system (in the public domain). There may be certain alterations and enhancements to the hardware as long as they follow the spec (don't introduce hardware incompatibility). You could write any copyright your own BIOS. Maybe it would be an improvement on someone else's BIOS, but it would still have to support the same interrupts the same way that the original IBM-BIOS did. That code has been made public many years ago and still acts as the standard for PC-BIOS, to the best of my knowledge. cheers, cherylw