Re: How is linux not an O/S Was: Re: Want to give back to linux?

[Scott McDermott]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 09:59:34AM +0100:
> If you power on an IBM-PC without a boot disk, it will eventually drop
> into a Basic interpreter. I really don't know whether the BIOS of a
> modern PC still have this functionality, or whether it has been stripped
> out to save space.

This is no longer part of a PC motherboard's ROM.

-- 
Scott


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