Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: MILO vs BIOS on Linux/Intel. | Date | 14 Feb 1998 03:04:58 GMT |
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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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