Re: [OpenBIOS] award bios source code - please send requests

[Per Jessen]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:12:15 -0600 (MDT), Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Per Jessen wrote:
> > I certainly have no intention of breaking any laws and/or regulations,
> > or violating anybodys copyrights. Most assuredly not. I believe the
> > code was already made publicly available a while ago, quite possibly
> > via the linuxbios mailing list.
>
> somebody made a similar offer a long time ago on the linuxbios mailing
> list. I checked the old emails in that concerning this. About four or five
> people told the person we were not at all interested, since it was a
> proprietary bios and the code probably sucked anyway (that is one thing
> I've learned by talking to people who did have access to this standard
> BIOSes -- hideous assembly code).

Certainly assembler code - and not particularly pretty either. I don't see it 
being used anywhere for anything else than perhaps a learning exercise.

regards,
Per

regards,
Per Jessen, Zurich
http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console.

Windows 2001: "I'm sorry Dave ...  I'm afraid I can't do that."

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