Talking bios

[Allan Shaw]

Back in the very early days of the 8286 CPU's one of the leading bios 
manufacturers at that time whom i believe was called Phoenix had a utility 
which came with any system containing there bios which would allow you to 
modify/configure/set the parameters within the bios by running this utility 
from at that time a command prompt.

I had a system with this type of bios and was using the Artic speech 
product and could change anything I require within the bios and then only 
had to reboot my machine to pick up the changes.

so as with many things, all we need to do is once again make the old 
something new again and develop something similar for the modern day bios 
and make our life a little easier.
If the Phoenix company is still around, maybe that would be a good place to 
start.