Subject: Re: non-related netbsd topic
To: None <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA, port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Glenn Thobe <thobe@lafn.org>
List: port-sun3
Date: 08/19/1996 03:29:47
> 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.

He obviously means the PROM monitor which contains firmware for booting
the OS off various devices.

-GT

> 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.

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