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From: chan@eeserv (Andrew Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unix on PC and AMI bios
Message-ID: <1989Nov13.053136.9372@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 13 Nov 89 05:31:36 GMT
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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.
>

We have Unisys 386 using Award BIOS running SCO 386 Xenix V v.2.2.2 okay.
I myself have an 286 with AMI BIOS and running SCO 286 Xenix V again okay.