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From: greg@infopls.chi.il.us (Greg Clawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Microid BIOS (was Micro Generation Comments?)
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Date: 28 Mar 91 23:47:28 GMT
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sigma@jec302.its.rpi.edu (Kevin J Martin) writes:

> akcs.gregc@vpnet.chi.il.us (*Greg*) writes:
> >Your Bios could be the Microid bios.  But I'm not certain they would use
> >this since Microid is a new bios that just was released not to long ago. 
> >And the only other vendors that use it are PC Brand.  Microid is VERY
> >compatible.
> 
> But I've only heard of it being used in high-speed systems like PC Brand's
> 386/33 or the Micro Generation 486/33.  If it's such an improvement (and
> I've heard from several people that it truly is), why not use it for other
> systems like the 386/25 or 386sx/20?
> 
> PC Brand raised their prices about $250 recently.  Grr.
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Martin
> sigma@rpi.edu

It will make the buyer buy a better more expensive machine if you use it
for higher priced machines.  Quite frankly, it might only work with DX's
32-bit crunching.  So the SX's are out on a limb.  It's probably
incompatible with 16-bit interaction.  Don't forget, this is a new
bios; and probably needs more time to adapt it to lesser machines.

So we'll just have to see what the guru's come up with.

Or should I blurt; "Demigods".
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\GC/  Greg Clawson
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