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From: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Booting a hard drive with old ROMs
Message-ID: <361@slvblc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 88 16:35:13 GMT
References: <869@ima.ISC.COM> <3578@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Sender: uupc@slvblc.UUCP
Reply-To: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Organization: SLV Systems Group, Ben Lomond, CA
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Summary: Phoenix Technologies does NOT sell ROMs
Disclaimer: none


In article <869@ima.ISC.COM> johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine) writes:
> I hear that IBM reps are telling their customers with old PCs that since
> IBM won't sell them an updated ROM, they should call Phoenix Technologies
> and get a Phoenix clone BIOS for their PC.
> 
> The Phoenix people are happy to oblige, at a price [...]
  ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^  ^^ ^ ^^^^^

I would be curious to know where this last bit of information came from.

The Phoenix folks are a little frustrated by IBM's largess because they
(Phoenix) neither manufacture nor sell BIOS ROM's--they license BIOS
software to OEM's who then install that software in the ROM's they
(the OEM's) sell.

All calls coming into Phoenix Technologies from people who want to buy
BIOS ROM's are referred to the nearest OEM simply because Phoenix has
none to sell!

Dick

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