Subject: Re: non-related netbsd topic
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
List: port-sun3
Date: 08/11/1996 17:33:12
> > I've not tested this out with anything but a Sun 3/60 with bios v1.6
> > and v1.9 (no 3/50 to try it with),
> 
> Um, what's a "bios"?  AFAIK no Sun-3 has anything known as a bios (nor
> BIOS); I thought the term was restricted to the intel-dos-box world.
> I'm not entirely clear on what a dos-box BIOS does, but from what
> little I do know, it sounds like a rudimentary OS in ROM, which I'm
> fairly sure Sun-3s don't have, so there's not even anything very close.

Well, I'm sure he means the Sun-3 boot PROMs.

cjs

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