[yuhong]

It wasn't useful for cloners either anyway, as it was copyrighted.

[digi_owl]

Well it could be used to write a spec sheet that then was used on clean room implement a clone. but i guess there was a risk that some terminology or similar could leak through.

[umaxtu]

Compaq managed it with their "Portable".

[hga]

As did Phoenix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies#Cloning_t...