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Technology Liberation Front: Reverse Engineering and Innovation: Some Examples

  • Duncan Frissell · 3 years ago
    The most famous reverse engineering case in computers has to be Compaqs (and then others) reverse engineering of the IBM BIOS which allowed the cheap clone market to explode in the mid 1980s.

    Compaq was immediately innovative since it sold a transportable computer which IBM did not. And then when IBM wandered off into the PS/2 dead end, IBM Clones without IBM preserved the vibrant computer market that remains to this day.