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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unix vs AMI bios
Message-ID: <1594@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 89 15:31:50 GMT
References: <776@prles2.UUCP> <1429@starfish.Convergent.COM> <1989Nov10.200029.3693@ico.isc.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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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...

  Someone is giving you a bunch of hogwash. I have been running SCO
Xenix on an AMI for three years, and have run Xenix, 386/ix, and
MicroPort on AMI, Award, and Pheonix. The only significant AMI problem
was fixed in 1987, and only affected DOS programs which read the
keyboard in weird ways (ie. games). I'm told that ESIX runs on Award and
AMI, but haven't tried it personally.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon