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Associated article: Plug-and-Play OPROMs and the BIOS Boot Specification

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Unpublished source code accompanying the article by Tom Roden and Scott Townsend in which they discuss the PnP BIOS Specification which ushers in the notion of boot priority, making multiple boot devices a reality. In examining the Boot Specification, Tom and Scott examine a PnP OPROM data structure called the "$PnP Header." Requires UNZIP/PKUNZIP to extract.

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	ROMSCAN.CPP
	ROMSCAN.H
	PNPHDR.CPP
	TOMHDR.CPP
	BUILD.BAT
	MAKEROM.DBG
	ROMSCANC.C
	ROMSCAN.EXE
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