[ltp] T30 and Dockingstation

[D. Sen]

Nope, as recently as the Thinkpad 600....(5 years ago?), IBM released 
detailed documentation/code of its BIOS....tpctl (by Thomas Hood) was 
developed, I believe, using this info....

Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:48:14PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
>>Pam Huntley <phuntley@us.ibm.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>More deeper information is BIOS source code so we won't be able to publish.
>>
>>Interesting how IBM's policy on that has changed over the years.
>>Used to be that IBM published its BIOSes in nice big books full
>>of commented assembly code.  *sigh*
> 
> 
> I assume you're talking about the old PC/XT and PC/AT technical
> manuals?  That was back when IBM developed its own BIOS code, so it
> was up to IBM under what conditions the BIOS could be released.....
> 
> 						- Ted

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