I remember the story, but not the details beyond the clean room development.
Curiously, I worked for Compaq for a time after they purchased the company
I worked for at the time (Tandem (*NOT Tandy*, But Tandem; the people who
made the original NonStop computer systems). There was quite the culture
class between Tandem and Compaq; there were many terms and phrases that
both companies used that meant completely different things.
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 8:39 AM <ch...@go-mtc.com> wrote:
> That reminds me, I watched a Netflix documentary last night about Compaq.
> Basically the story behind Halt and Catch Fire. Well worth seeing.
> Silicon Cowboys I think.
>
> I was trying to explain to my wife about the team that saw the bios source
> code and how they could not pollute the other guys working on software to
> keep a clean separation of copy infringment potentiality. Does anyone
> remember the court case where one team was segregated and saw the IP and
> wrote a spec that another team used to create new software. Seems to me it
> was Lotus v Twin, but it could have been Phoenix Bios v IBM. I really
> think it was BIOS related.
>
> BIOS was so easy to copy back in the day.
>
>
> *From:* Ken Hohhof
> *Sent:* Monday, October 28, 2024 8:37 AM
> *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] VM ware
>
>
> Broadcom has a strange history. I remember in the late 1990s attending
> ANSI standards meetings with “the 2 Henrys” who founded Broadcom. Back
> then, they were just regular guys, not billionaires.
>
>
>
> My recollection is one of them, I think Henry Nicholas, was at PairGain
> and developed an in-house fabless semiconductor design organization with
> innovative tools that could basically compile a modem chip from a list of
> specs. Today we would probably call it AI. He wanted PairGain to go into
> the chip design business and sell services to other customers but they
> didn’t want to do that, so he and his mentor from UCLA formed their own
> company.
>
>
>
> Looks like the company is owned by a bunch of private equity companies
> today. All they see is dollar signs. As somebody already pointed out, if
> they are screwing over their giant customers, the little guys have no
> chance.
>
>
>
> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
> *Sent:* Monday, October 28, 2024 7:35 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] VM ware
>
>
>
> I've seen most people run over to Proxmox.
>
>
>
> AT&T just got a temporary restraining order out of the court to keep
> Broadcom from screwing them short term.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 9:30 PM Chuck <ch...@go-mtc.com> wrote:
>
>
> Broadcom does not recognize our perpetual license. Anyone have a
> solution? Proxmox. Xen. Really like to not have to do this.
>
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