From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   I was wondering about the days when people made   
   computers in garages. Have those days actually gone?   
      
   Someone told me that it depends on the motherboard   
   manufacturer, and that even back in the garage days,   
   motherboards were still a thing. It depends on whether   
   the manufacturer is willing to release the specs. There   
   is apparently no "open motherboard standard", but AMD   
   for some reason are happy to release their specs,   
   meaning you can possibly write a custom BIOS for their   
   motherboards. Is that true, and is it sustainable?   
      
   Note that I am only interested in writing 32-bit protected   
   mode code in C, so any BIOS I write would be CSM. I'm   
   particularly interested in getting INT 14H to talk via   
   bluetooth to another computer.   
      
   Note that I already pursued trying to get SeaBIOS to do   
   this, but that project didn't seem to be suitable for what   
   I want, and I want to write something public domain   
   anyway.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)