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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unix on PC and AMI bios
Message-ID: <1989Nov10.142436.3259@virtech.uucp>
Date: 10 Nov 89 14:24:36 GMT
References: <776@prles2.UUCP> <1429@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <1429@starfish.Convergent.COM>, jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) writes:
> I'm not enough of a UN*X whiz to answer the first.  To the second,
> though, if you want to run UN*X then you are best to stay with Phoenix
> BIOS.  I'm told that you can't run it with AMI or Award.  We
> (Convergent/Unisys) remove the Award BIOS from the CPUs we buy and
> replace them with Phoenix for this reason.

I have run three different 386 unixes (386/ix, Bell Tech, and SCO Xenix 2.3.2)
on systems with AMI BIOSs, so your source was wrong (for at least these
systems).

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