• @entropicdrift
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    77 months ago

    Basically the answer to your question is “yes, and it was way more lucrative than Beeper Mini is”

    • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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      17 months ago

      They reverse engineered IBM’s BIOS to create the first fully compatible non-IBM PC that could run MS-DOS and all IBM PC software natively

      This doesn’t sound like anything that’s dependent on IBM servers or services. It also doesn’t sound like something that IBM could realistically fix easily and retroactively, which is the case here with Apple.