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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unix on PC and AMI bios
Message-ID: <[255b2e16:6709.2]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 89 21:00:07 GMT
References: <776@prles2.UUCP> <1429@starfish.Convergent.COM>
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>Response 1 of 1 (6709) by jerry at starfish.Convergent.COM on Fri 10 Nov 89
>11:38
>[Gerald Hawkins]
>(30 lines)
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>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.

Nonsense.

The BIOS is only involved in booting the system.  Once it is booted, Unix
runs without the BIOS at all.

We sell systems, with AMI BIOSes, and they work fine with Xenix and Unix.

No problems reported so far, and I don't expect any in the future.

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