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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Steve Gibson's 386sx column
Message-ID: <4383@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 90 05:30:10 GMT
References: <29140@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <29140@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.amd.com () writes:
>Has anyone read it? I got very excited by it but it also raised some
>questions. Maybe we can start a discussion:
>
>2) He says the Phoenix BIOS only needs from F8000-FFFFF after boot up.
>Is this true for all Phoenix 386 BIOSes? I thought the idea of using
>E0000-EFFFF was neat but this goes even further!

My computer uses the AMI BIOS, and it also only needs F800-FFFF after
bootup; I have QEMM-386 using E800-F7FF for the EMS page frame.  More
memory!  Heheheheh...

Incidentally, what is the most recent release of AMI's BIOS?  Mine is dated
September 25, 1988, which seems pretty old.

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Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu