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From: huilin@hpindda.HP.COM (Hui-Lin Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Steve Gibson's 386sx column
Message-ID: <40970047@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 90 23:43:19 GMT
References: <29140@amdcad.AMD.COM>
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/ jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill) /  9:30 pm  Feb 13, 1990 /
>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...

Is the BIOS at f000-f800 automatically disabled so that it
doesn't appear in the memory map or does it have to be manually
disabled?  If the latter case, how is this done?

Hui-Lin Lim
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