Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Wed May 04 2022 16:04:00

> Compaq reverse engineered the PC BIOS much in the way they described in
> HACF, although with some theatrical license on the show. I always thought
> that Cardiff was supposed to be Compaq, seeing as they were both in Texas
> and both battling IBM in the marketplace.

> Compaq didn't come from a mainframe background, though.

IIRC, Compaq also didn't used to sell radio kits, either, but part of it
could have been based off of what they did.


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