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From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unix on PC and AMI bios
Summary: perhaps the problems are related to the motherboard cache
	 not the bios at all
Message-ID: <5641@holston.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 89 00:57:53 GMT
References: <776@prles2.UUCP> <1429@starfish.Convergent.COM> <694@disk.UUCP>
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In article <694@disk.UUCP>, rob@disk.UUCP (Rob Miracle) writes:
> In article <1429@starfish.Convergent.COM>, jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) writes:
> >greenstr@cst.prl.philips.nl (Roland Greenstreet) writes:
> >>I have two questions :-
> >>2.  I have been using the Phonix bios in my machine for a few years without
> >>    any compatability problems. I am about to buy a new motherboard with an

I have heard of problems in multitasking environments relating 
to the cache on the motherboard, but I think this can be defeated
on most systems.

Perhaps someone with a little first hand experience would care
to elaborate more. My info is second hand.
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