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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 1995 19:04:43 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp), cmf@ins.infonet.net, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Interesting (and odd) effect in -current 
Message-ID:  <199504150204.TAA00579@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Apr 95 18:06:32 PDT." <199504150106.SAA02129@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> 

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>But I have digressed, if the BIOS didn't manage to get this write at
>power on, you would get NMI interrupts no matter what OS you ran.  I
>don't see a reason to add code to FreeBSD that really belongs in the
>BIOS in the off chance that some really rare broken motherboard could
>then work.

   I agree, but I think clearing memory has other merits.

-DG



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