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![lauriewired Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1610352539089899520.png) LaurieWired [@lauriewired](/creator/twitter/lauriewired) on x 81.1K followers
Created: 2025-06-20 19:41:27 UTC

A lone Boston coder rewrote BIOS in 1984.

IBM wanted to sue. The programmer's clever loophole became the model for legally defensible reverse engineering.

You’ve probably been booting his descendants ever since. This is how Phoenix Technologies got away with it:

![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gt6TXEIXkAAS8Ya.jpg)

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