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Re:Fricking liars

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 29, 2004 09:11 PM
Since when? How about when the first VGA-compatible graphics cards for the PC came out, and had to include the string "IBM" in their BIOS because certain DOS programs used that string (which was part of the IBM copyright statement) to detect whether a VGA was present.

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