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I bought an xt-compatible pc last month.  Everything seems great.  But one day
when I had to let the dealer change its multi-I/O board, I faced one problem.
Without a disk controller in my pc, I realized it is nothing but a pile of
junk.  As my experience of using 8-bit micro such as Apple II or ZDS ( a
Zilog micro using Z80 ), even you don't have any disk driver, you still can
access its ROM and play the pc as a terminal.  Now look what is xt.  I have
keyboard, monitor, modem, and I know there is some basic I/O software in its
ROM, but I can not even make it as a terminal so that I can connect it to a
host via my modem even in the bare mode.  Is this the limitation of xt ?
Is there any way to make xt act like a terminal without first booting DOS ?
Could any one please give me the answer if it exists ?  Thanks in advance.


Tsai-Chia Chou		    ARPA : chou@cvl.umd.edu
			    UUCP : ...!seismo!cvl!chou
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