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From: rcollins@altos86.Altos.COM (Robert Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: NEAT motherboards
Message-ID: <3815@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 13 Aug 90 15:47:53 GMT
References: <2767@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcollins@altos86.UUCP (Robert Collins)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <2767@mindlink.UUCP> a329@mindlink.UUCP (Stephen Niehaus) writes:
>
>As for the BIOS choice I would go with AMI. Why? In my opinion the Phoenix BIOS
>is too slow, And the AMI provides more features.
>
All the major BIOS's are real bad.  You may not have had any problems with
them, but you haven't seen their source code.  This includes AMI, PHOENIX,
and AWARD.  The two best BIOS's are MR BIOS (Microid Research), and QUADTEL.
MR BIOS outperforms every BIOS on the market in EVERY known benchmark...with
no exceptions.  It also has all the stuff in setup to set the chip set
specific features. (BTW, having shadow or cache select in the SETUP is
standard).  

QUADTEL, is 90% as good as MR BIOS, but doesn't benchmark quite as good,
the source code isn't quite as "clean" and has a few CPU speed dependencies
in their use of timing delays.

Robert Collins