Talking bios

Scott Berry n7zib at bresnan.net
Tue Dec 23 11:44:54 EST 2003


Actually Pheonix and I can't think of the other company have joined
forces.  So maybe if we hit both companies that would be good.

On Tue, 23
Dec 2003, Allan Shaw wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
>
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