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> Does that mean that such BIOS's are proprietary in the sense that they
> don't recognize the dedicated format?

There are times when the politically-correct of the world use the term
"proprietary" when they actually mean "dumb" or "really badly
designed".  But yes, that's what it means...  :)

mike




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