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From: SJONES%HAMPVMS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Steve Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: RE: Re: BIOS disk driver
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Date: 1 Dec 88 19:55:39 GMT
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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 88 10:59:58 GMT
From: Andy Tanenbaum 
+ In article <79151@sun.uucp> alanf%smile@Sun.COM (Alan Fargusson) writes:
+ >There is a problem with calling the ROM BIOS when you are using interrupts on
+ >the Z-248. [...]
+
+ Progress at last.  Do you have any suggestions about how to fix it?  I had
+ hopes that the BIOS routine would work on all machines.  Perhaps this is a
+ pipe dream.  However, it seems strange that bios_wini.c does work on my
+ machine, which is also a Z-248.  What is going on here?

Well, I don't know how much this might have to do with it, but someone
recently ordered a Z-248 through the college and got one with ROM's that
were over a year old, and about 4 revisions behind. The possibility of
newer ROM's providing more stack space, or other goodies, presents itself.

Luck,
--Steve.

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