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From: jerry@gumby.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: i486 with ETEQ and MRBIOS
Message-ID: <4906@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 29 May 91 17:58:25 GMT
References: <188@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl> <1093@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Reply-To: jerry@altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <1093@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) writes:
>Well, the title says it all, does anyone have experience or
>information regarding the ETEQ chip set or MRBIOS? I'm 
>interested in running sysV 4.0 on such a board.
>Thanks.


UNIX runs in protected mode, and, therefore, doesn't use the ROM BIOS.
The BIOS is only used to boot UNIX, and then UNIX uses it's own device
drivers to talk directly to the hardware.




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