Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!altos!altos86!rcollins From: rcollins@altos86.Altos.COM (Robert Collins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Microid BIOS (was Micro Generation Comments?) Message-ID: <181@altos86.Altos.COM> Date: 1 Apr 91 21:29:14 GMT References: <}F===T+@rpi.edu> Reply-To: rcollins@altos86.UUCP (Robert Collins) Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA Lines: 37 In article greg@infopls.chi.il.us (Greg Clawson) writes: >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. > >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. Since I've been personal friends with Mikey (MR BIOS) for a couple of years, I've seen all of the development he has done on his BIOS. In fact, it is safe to say that I am more familiar with his BIOS than anybody but himself. Those are my credentials to speak authoritavely on his BIOS. MR BIOS can be bought for '286, '386 (DX & SX), and '486 computers. MR BIOS is hardly incompatible with 16-bit interaction. Furthermore, since the BIOS is nothing more than software, and there is NO software difference between the SX & DX, why would MR BIOS (even allegedly) not work on an 80386 SX?? MR BIOS needs no time to adapt to lesser machines. He won't be porting it to chipsets that are now obsolete, so in that respect it won't adapt to "lesser" machines. BTW, ask my friend who runs MR BIOS on his SX if it works! -- "Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only." Mat. 4:10 Robert Collins UUCP: ...!sun!altos86!rcollins HOME: (408) 225-8002 WORK: (408) 432-6200 x4356