* Bill Vermillion <bv_at_wjv.com> wrote: > Hmm. I started running Xenix systems on Intel systems [SCO's > Xenix, and Altos systems] back in the 1984 era. > > At that time as I recall it the BIOS was ONLY used to get > the information to boot the system, and everything else in the BIOS > was ignored. This caused a lot of confusion for people who had > come from a DOS oriented world and saying things such as "well it > works in DOS so *i*x must be broken. > > So - have things changed where the OS looks at the BIOS [in the > *i*x world - or is it like this old fart remembers where BIOS was > only used to find the HD and boot the OS? A good example is FreeBSD on the Microsoft Xbox. The Xbox has no PC-style BIOS and yet it's capable of running a (slightly patched) FreeBSD kernel. A disadvantage of the Xbox is that it doesn't have a VGA BIOS interface, which means the port uses a custom framebuffer driver to make the console work. -- Ed Schouten <ed_at_fxq.nl> WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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