Does Xenix use the BIOS for anythin
John C. Archambeau
jca at pnet01.cts.com
Sat Mar 24 15:56:06 AEST 1990
lws at comm.WANG.COM (Lyle Seaman) writes:
>I may have missed part of this thread, so if this doesn't make sense,
>I apologize.
>
>If Xenix doesn't use the BIOS for anything (because the BIOS doesn't
>work w/ protected mode), then by extension, OS/2 and Unix don't use
>the BIOS either...
>
>Then howcum' I needed to upgrade my BIOS when I installed an ESDI
>controller?
Probably to low level format the hard drive.
// JCA
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