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From: chou@cvl.UUCP (Tsai-Chia Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Could XT be a bare-terminal ?
Message-ID: <1801@cvl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 15:16:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 18 15:16:50 1986
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Organization: Center for Automation Research, Univ. of Md.
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Keywords: XT, terminal, connection


I bought an xt-compatible pc last month.  Everything seems great.  But one day
when I had to let the dealer change its multi-I/O board, I faced one problem.
Without a disk controller in my pc, I realized it is nothing but a pile of
junk.  As my experience of using 8-bit micro such as Apple II or ZDS ( a
Zilog micro using Z80 ), even you don't have any disk driver, you still can
access its ROM and play the pc as a terminal.  Now look what is xt.  I have
keyboard, monitor, modem, and I know there is some basic I/O software in its
ROM, but I can not even make it as a terminal so that I can connect it to a
host via my modem even in the bare mode.  Is this the limitation of xt ?
Is there any way to make xt act like a terminal without first booting DOS ?
Could any one please give me the answer if it exists ?  Thanks in advance.


Tsai-Chia Chou		    ARPA : chou@cvl.umd.edu
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