AMC: Halt and Catch Fire

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > AMC: Halt and Catch Fire

phongn: Oct 21, 2006

Colonial Air Force posted:

Doesn't mean IBM wouldn't send lawyers after you anyway.

IIRC, IBM did sue Compaq; the latter was carefuly to make sure none of their engineers saw IBM's technical documentation and that there was a 'Chinese Wall' between the people documenting the BIOS and the people writing their own implementation.

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phongn: Oct 21, 2006

WebDog posted:

"It's gonna have a handle"

So the show's about them developing an Osbourne.

I can just imagine the impassioned sales pitches.
"With more power and compatibility than an IBM, and it weighs, just 15kg!"

No, the Compaq Portable.

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