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From: Joshuwa Jenkins <colossus@***********.NET>
Subject: Re: ASIST assistance?
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 14:41:53 -0400
>Michael Broadwater wrote:

>The bios doesn't deal with direct I/O. That's the keyboard and monitor,
>as was already said. BIOS may do some I/O control, but that's as far
>as it goes. ASIST just does input/output. It's not software that dictates
>how memory is allocated, drive access, runs software, etc. You would, most
>likely, need an OS to _run_ ASIST.

I always figured MPCP was the OS in SR.

Would the MPCP take care of the CMOS job?
Sort of OS+CMOS.

Or would ASIST take care of the CMOS job along with the basic BIOS tasks?

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