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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!tandon!tdbear
- From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
- Subject: Re: MR. BIOS, Has anybody heard about this BIOS??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.163722.911@tandon.com>
- Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
- References: <13998@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:37:22 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <13998@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> gtj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Glenn T Jayaputera) writes:
- >Has anybody heard about 'MR. BIOS' ? How is it?? Is it fully compatible
- >with something like AMI or Award bios??
-
- Oh yes indeedy! Mr. BIOS (aka Mr. Mike) made the rounds a few
- years ago to all of the big names who wrote their own BIOS...
- I know of four companies, but can only remember Zenith and
- Tandon off the top of my head. While at Zenith, he was a
- little strange (seemed to be always eating sugar, like a whole
- bag of candy corn), but he was one of the dedicated and
- tireless BIOS engineers. Zenith, at the time, was the only
- company wise enough to not only build in a ROM setup but also
- a full ROM debugger (sans assembler) in to the
- Mark-Foster's-Monitor ROM. After Zenith, he came to Tandon
- and worked tirelessly there until he didn't like the area any
- more... then I think he hit a few companies down in Orange
- COunty (still can't remember the names)... anyway, finally he
- found the ideal home for himself in the bay area and the ideal
- company for himself... Microid Research. I hear he is raking
- in the dough and since he basically has himself as his staff,
- he is keeping most of it.
-
- So much for the history of Mr. BIOS... as far as a BIOS, well,
- I'd say that he has literally tens of years of experience
- behind the BIOS. Being quick at picking up things, he is
- amazing at adapting his BIOS to new machines with little or no
- problems (any of which are probably caught long before a
- customer sale).
-
- So... I'd say that his BIOS is pretty darned good. In fact,
- I'd say that it is just as good as Zenith's and Tandon's (just
- to name a couple). :)
-
-
-
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