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From: druid@inuxc.UUCP (Larry Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: ibmpc rom sockets
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Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 12:48:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  3 12:48:02 1984
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[This line seems to be more of a tradition now than necessity}

There was an article in SOFTALK about 3 to 6 months ago about the
empty 5th ROM socket in non-XT pc's.  Placement of a correctly
programmed ROM will allow you to boot from a drive C hard disk
via a built-in check that the BIOS does to code that is supposed 
to be there.  Perhaps that is where you read it?