Re: Semi-OT: Interesting or unusual PC Compatibles?

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Classic clean-room reverse engineering. Compaq put the
effort into it
> that no one else did, meaning that Compaqs were the
only clones that
> exceeded the "95% compatibility" barrier
until the Phoenix BIOS came
> along.

or was it 99 44/100 % compatability?
What do they MEASURE?