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Article #42354

Re: 386Phoenix BIOS question

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From: Ralf.Brown
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 22:17
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In article <40970045@hpindda.HP.COM>, huilin@hpindda.HP.COM (Hui-Lin Lim) wrote:
}In a recent issue of InfoWorld, Steve Gibson wrote that he
}upgraded his systems to 386s and that with Phoenix BIOS you can
}disable the first 32K (f000-f800) so that 386Max (presumeably
}QEMM) can use that as high DOS memory.  Does anyone know if this
}is true for all 386 versions of the Phoenix BIOS?

True for the 1.10 10a version shipped by Gateway 2000.	Runs just fine here
with the EMS frame from E800 to F7FF (overlapping the first 32K of the BIOS).

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