On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Hans Pufal wrote:
> It was the day they went public, he drove his brand new ferrari into a
> tree. I lived right down the road from there at the time and passed that
> tree many, many times.
But you NEVER drove a Ferrari into it!
> Another Eagle story is that IBM started leagal actions to sue them for
> BIOS copyright infringement. I was at Gavilan at the time and we visited
> Eagle to discuss the IBM issues. As I recall it Eagle told us that IBM
> had some form of binary code analyser which had shown up some relativly
> isolated common code sequences. I do not recall the outcome but I think
> Eagle survived after that, but not for long...
I liked the Eagle CP/M machines, but their PCs were a little
disappointing. (Nothing wrong, just not very interesting)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Sun Jul 06 2003 - 19:11:00 BST