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From: daveb@phred.UUCP (David Burd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BIOS questions
Message-ID: <2480@phred.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 21:37:07 GMT
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In article <2479@phred.UUCP> stevel@phred.UUCP (Steve Leach) writes:
> would like to know which of the third party BIOSs (BIOSi?) is
> Facts, rumors?, horror stories!, anything at all.

I don't know much about Phoenix or Award BIOSi, but the
Packard Bell BIOS in my model PB286 does not properly
recognize the extended keyboard which came with the machine,
or any other I have tried (including a true Blue).  
I am using Reflections R2+ as a VT100 emulator on a unix
system and I find it very difficult to use the vi style 
editors because the keypad functions are all screwed up.

I have no connection with PB other than as a dissatisfied user,
and no connection with Walker, Richer & Quinn Inc.
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