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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Clone BIOS
Message-ID: <1990Aug12.140934.6198@druid.uucp>
Date: 12 Aug 90 14:09:34 GMT
References: <777@beguine.UUCP>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <777@beguine.UUCP> Robert.Berry@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) writes:
>My vote would be for the AMI BIOS.  I really don't know that much about
>the technical side--I suppose the code might be more efficient on some than
>on others--but to me, one of the most apparent things is that the AMI BIOS
>seems to go through its POST faster.  Of course, you can abort it with Esc
>if you want.
>
Faster POST is not necessarily better.  Some POSTs are slower because they
perform more stringent testing.  Of course you can't assume it is better
because it is slower either.

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