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My PCjr has a BASIC ROM (a slightly modified version that shows off
the "advanced grahpics/sound" of the PCjr when you hit escape as soon
as it starts), and when booted without a harddrive, my AMIBIOS based
K5 says "NO ROM BASIC", so I don't know if the BASIC call has been
replaced with the BIOS setup
- --Sam
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From: Alistair Riddoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Thomas Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: ELKS 0.0.81 available from ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk
> Thomas Stewart writes:
> >
> > > > Not really--All I know is that PCs and XTs fell back on
> > > > cassette BASIC when the disk boot failed--AMI BIOS still
> > > > makes a call to it when it fails, but the BASIC roms don't
> > > > exist in post-8088s. It does seem intriguing, though. I'll
> > > > see what I can come up with.
> > > >
> > >
> > >I have come across a few old machies that had sockets like this,
> > >but never one that actually had a BASIC rom in it. I don't know
> > >what the ROM in this socket needs to contain in order for the
> > >BIOS to recognise it as a BASIC ROM and run it if boot fails.
> > >
> > >Interestingly enough the ELONEX 486DX33 I use for testing ELKS
> > >alot of the time has cassette BASIC built into its BIOS. I only
> > >found out by accident because I took out the harddrive.
> > >
> > >Al
> > >
> >
> > If I remember right the bios setup replaces the basic, On my 386,
> > if you call basic (with an int or someting, did it years ago and
> > can't remember) the bios setup loaded. The original IBM PC's had
> > basic on a rom, but I do not know how big the rom was.
> >
>
> The Elonex definatly has both a BIOS setup program and BASIC. I
> will see what docs I can track down on this.
>
> Al
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