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Re: IBM PC Bios ROM upgrade/info 16-64 & 64-256 M-Boards

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From: Clarence Wilkerson
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 1991 19:59
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I have seen posted  ( perhaps on SIMTEL20 ) source for a V20 compatible
XT bios. I have used it on one PC clone and it works. Here it is from
MSDOS.SYSUTL :
wilker@hopf> arc -v bios-asm.arc
Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
BIOS.ASM        179320  Crunched   66%     62712  18 Jan 88  10:12p  0bfd
BIOS.DOC          2471  Crunched   37%      1576  29 Aug 87   3:00p  c3c7
        ====  ========            ====  ========
Total      2    181791             65%     64288

Here's part of the doc file:
From: Ya`akov Miles <multi%dac.triumf.cdn%ubc.csnet at RELAY.CS.NET>
To:   Info-IBMPC at MIT-MC
Re:   BIOS Musings

You may be interested in a history of where this BIOS came from, and
how it arrived in its present form.  A heavily patched,
partially-functionally BIOS (with no copyright statement, or other
visible indication of origin) was supplied with my IBM-PC/xt
compatible 10 mHz motherboard.  In order to get my motherboard to
function correctly, in other words, to work with the parity interrupt
enabled and to operate with the NEC "V20", it was necessary to
disassemble and thoroughly go thru this "anonymous" bios, which was
hinted as supplied by Taiwan, while limping along on a name brand
bios, as supplied on my previous motherboard by a different vendor.
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From: wilker@descartes.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
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Subject: Re: IBM PC Bios ROM upgrade/info 16-64 & 64-256 M-Boards
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