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echo: os2
to: Eddy Thilleman
from: George White
date: 1999-11-15 09:53:14
subject: AMI BIOS date

Hi Eddy,

On 12-Nov-99, Eddy Thilleman wrote to Linda Proulx:

 JT>>> I doubt it will make a great deal of difference since OS/2 only
 JT>>> uses the BIOS for the initial system startup.  It switches to
 JT>>> protected mode within a few seconds and the BIOS drops out of
 JT>>> the picture completely at that point.

 LP>> Yes it does.  The DOS unit is AMI 1989 & according to Warp
 LP>> unleashed the minimum date is somewhere in 1990.

 ET> Neither can I find such a statement in the "User's Guide to OS/2
 ET> Warp 3" or in the "OS/2 Warp 4, Up and Running" book

Page 300 in my edition, Warp 3 red, it's in chapter 20 "Special
Hardware Considerations".

George

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