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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Does Xenix use the BIOS for anythin
Message-ID: <1990Mar27.182624.8020@druid.uucp>
Date: 27 Mar 90 18:26:24 GMT
References: <1934@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <1934@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>lws@comm.WANG.COM (Lyle Seaman) writes:
>>I may have missed part of this thread, so if this doesn't make sense,
>>I apologize.  
>>
>>If Xenix doesn't use the BIOS for anything (because the BIOS doesn't
>>work w/ protected mode), then by extension, OS/2 and Unix don't use
>>the BIOS either...
>>
>>Then howcum' I needed to upgrade my BIOS when I installed an ESDI
>>controller?
>
>Probably to low level format the hard drive.  
> 

More likely to boot the machine.

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