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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Unix vs AMI bios
Summary: shouldn't matter
Message-ID: <1989Nov10.200029.3693@ico.isc.com>
Date: 10 Nov 89 20:00:29 GMT
References: <776@prles2.UUCP> <1429@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation
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jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) writes:
> ...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...

Why not?  Details, please.  The various flavors of V.3 UNIX for the 386
only use the BIOS to boot, so it would seem that if the BIOS can boot the
machine at all, it can boot a UNIX kernel...and after that, it shouldn't
matter.
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