Re: MILO vs BIOS on Linux/Intel.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Feb 1998 03:04:58 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980213194806.18056B-100000@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org>
By author: James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Odd... I've never seen a multi-lingual BIOS, nor one that (recognizably) ran
> (the setup) in graphics mode. Perhaps this is more common in Europe?
>

PS/1's did; also, some AMI BIOSes run the setup in pseudo-graphic mode
(still text mode, but using a programmed font to make it appear
graphical.)

I'd rather wish they didn't; my experience has been that those BIOSes
just make things a lot more painful.

-hpa

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