Reply to post: Re: Well, it's clear infringement

Re: Well, it's clear infringement

Compaq beat IBM by rolling their own BIOS through Clean-Room Engineering

..during which they recreated the BIOS API. A BIOS call worked the same on the IBM BIOS, the Compaq BIOS and all the other BIOSes - otherwise the compatible market would never have worked.

So a call to 10h with a 0Ah parameter should print a character, regardless of who implemented the BIOS.