art@MITRE.ARPA.UUCP (10/29/87)
As you indicated in your previous note. You can distribute changes to the
BIOS without violating any copywright laws. You can not however distribute
a full copy of your modified bios without DEC's permission. I did write
to Ron Gemma (Rainbow product manager) on several questions. I included
your question as part of the letter. After a wait of 6 months I finally
received a form letter that made it very clear that DEC had never even read
my letter. The form letter was an answer to the form letter that appeared
in a year old WARUG newsletter asking for MS-DOS 3.10, networking kit etc.
Thru other verbal communications I have been told that MANY MANY of the form
letters were received by DEC and anything that looked like it came as the
result of the C. Mack/ T. Needleman generated letter writing campaign was
answered by this form letter. At this point you could write an article
telling how to do it. DEC Professional or Ted Needleman would probably
be willing to pay for such an article. I would like to obtain the information
on how to do it, and probably would make the changes.
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