Does Xenix use the BIOS for anythin

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

In article <1934 at crash.cts.com> jca at pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>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.  
> 

More likely to boot the machine.

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