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From: jboot@morgoth.UUCP (Jim F. Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Query about Award and Phoenix PC/XT BIOSes
Summary: Phoenix BIOS OK w/ Novell Advanced Netware
Message-ID: <501@morgoth.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 89 01:24:52 GMT
References: <20343@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <493@madnix.UUCP> <432@darth.UUCP>
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In article <432@darth.UUCP>, liber@darth.UUCP (Eric Liber) writes:
> > From article <20343@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, by wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu:
[lotsa stuff deleted]
> 
> I have HEARD (no hard evidence ) that the Pheonix bios does not like Novell
> netware.  That is why my machine was shipped with Award .. they assumed that
> you would want to run networking on a 386 machine.  (NOBODY needs that much
> speed ... :-) ).
> 
Hi.

	We have a Novell network here with > 20 WYSE pc286's that are
behaving _reasonably_ well.  If details are important, the BIOS
versions are v 2.72, the Network OS is Advanced Netware 2.12, and the
LAN adapters are a mixture of Corvus Omninet and 3Com Tokenlink.  Two
machines with the 2.72 BIOS do indeed have some occasional problems (won't
load large applications on alternate Tuesdays in months ending in "r",
etc).  Our vendor claims that these problems will go away when we
upgrade to v 2.75.  If anyone out there is interested, I can email
whether or not the BIOS upgrade helps.

						Jim Roberts



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