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- From: bdl@cruiser.uucp (Bob Lombard)
- Newsgroups: comp.realtime
- Subject: Re: Booting dos from ROM
- Keywords: DOS ROM BOOT
- Message-ID: <7gwmqB1w164w@cruiser.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 08:20:41 PDT
- References: <1992Sep4.141656.29191@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- hansen@deci.cs.umn.edu (David M. Hansen) writes:
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- > In article <peter.715502243@citr.uq.oz.au>, peter@citr.uq.oz.au (Peter Klavin
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- > |> cole@noao.edu (Lonnie Cole) writes:
- > |> >Does anyone know of instructions and or source in the public domain to
- > |> >allow booting dos from a battery backed RAM disk or ROM disk. Any
- > |> >pointers to code or docs would be greatly appreciated.
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- > I know of two companies which provide customizable BIOS's which could be
- > used in embedded systems. Unfortunately, I don't have their addresses or
- > phone numbers handy.
- >
- > One source is Annabooks. Their phone number was posted in this group a coupl
- > weeks ago.
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- Annabooks phone # is: 800-462-1042 or 619-673-0870
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- > The other is General Software (I think... I hope...). The latest issue of
- > Embedded Systems Programming plugs their new BIOS. This same company also
- > sells a re-entrant embeddable DOS clone.
-
- General Software # is : 206-391-4285
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- A company called Datalight also sells a Rom-Dos compatible with MSDOS 3.31
- their number is: 800-221-6630 or 206-435-8086
-
- > Disclaimer: I haven't used any of this stuff, so I don't really know how good
- > it is, let alone features and limitations.
-
- Neither have I, its just from my files. anyone else ??
-
-
- > Hope this helps.
- >
- > -=Dave
-
- Me too. Good Luck !
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