Shadow RAM with UNIX

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <1239 at ixos.UUCP> micha at ixos () writes:

| This is only useful for operating systems wich are using the BIOS
| like MS-DOS. Under UNIX *all* BIOS is disabled. All activities are
| made by device drivers. The amount of memory, normally 256 or 384K
| is *lost*, so Shadow-RAM with UNIX is useless.

  Sorry, in geeneral that's not correct. The ROMs are *unused* rather
than *disabled*. While the 386 can do this there's no need.
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