A good place that I have found for crosslisted BIOS behavior for
PC/XT/PCjr is helppc which a DOS program.  Available on simntel and
a link from Ray Moon's ASM FAQ.

Louis

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Michael W. Shaffer wrote:

> >From: Alistair Riddoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael W. Shaffer)
> >Subject: Re: Boot success on PCjr
> >Date: Mon, Feb 08, 1999, 13:03
> >
> 
> >How common are these PCjr machines? If they are quite rare it may only be
> >worth including support for them as an option. If there are alot about,
> >then we should support them out of the box.
> >
> >Al
> >
> 
> I have the only operating one that I know of in the area (but then I'm not a
> member of the area PC user's groups or anything). As someone else has
> mentioned, I have regularly seen small flocks of them in thrift stores and
> salvation army places, so I would say there must have been a fairly large
> number sold. I was thinking that it is probably best to add a CONFIG_PC_JR
> option either to the list of architectures in make config or else as a
> second, extended option to the CONFIG_PC_XT choice. I think that
> CONFIG_PC_XT is mostly appropriate for the jr, but I just need to #ifdef a
> few additional things such as the video buffer relocation into the
> bootloader.
> 

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