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Article #42236Steve Gibson's 386sx column
From: phil
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 20:22
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 20:22
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Has anyone read it? I got very excited by it but it also raised some
questions. Maybe we can start a discussion:
1) He says the Adaptec doesn't require a BIOS area after bootup.
Is this special? Does the WD1006 do this or not?
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!
3) PC SuperKwik gets loaded in 32K. Is PCSK the only one that can do
this?
4) The Gateway Ethernet interface has no high memory footprint?
Anyone care to comment on the Gateway? I've never seen it for
sale.
Is anyone else excited about this?
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Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
When guns are outlawed, only governments will have guns.
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