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Title:
PERSONAL COMPUTER DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH04229329
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To selectively use a BIOS from a ROM and to reuse the RAM in which the storage and execution of the BIOS were previously intended to be performed.

CONSTITUTION: A storage device control unit 50 is composed of a storage device controller 52, an address multiplexer 54 and a data buffer 56. The storage device controller 52 includes the logic for mapping the address of a microprocessor 26 and the address from the microprocessor 26 in the specified area of a RAM 58. This logic is used for reusing the RAM which was previously occupied by the BIOS. From the storage device controller 52, also a ROM selection signal (ROMSEL) to be used for making a ROM 86 use possible or use impossible is generated.


Inventors:
RICHIYAADO ARAN DAYAN
SON HAN RAMU
JIYON FUIRITSUPU TSUIMAAMAN
Application Number:
JP10379991A
Publication Date:
August 18, 1992
Filing Date:
April 09, 1991
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Assignee:
IBM
International Classes:
G06F9/06; G06F9/24; G06F9/445; G06F12/06; (IPC1-7): G06F9/06; G06F9/445
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Koichi Tonmiya (1 person outside)