Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: NO ROM BASIC

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 09:48:02 -0800 (PST)

> My guess is that this thread started when someone configured no
> bootable device at all on a machine that still has the "jump to ROM
> BASIC" as the fallback when everything else fails.

No, all machines have that (INT 18h). However, all machines but IBM
print a message -- historically "NO ROM BASIC" more recently "BOOT
FAILED".

> Actually, that is still a useful feature: you can plug in your own ROM
> and have the machine boot that ROM, having no disk, ethernet etc etc.

That is what's called an option ROM, though; it has nothing to do with
ROM BASIC.

-hpa

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