ancient speech synthesizers

[Angelo Sonnesso]

The IBM PC used to have a way to access the BIOS using debug under MSDOS.
You just typed in the memory address and the BIOS program came up and Using 
ASAP I was able to make any changes I needed.
It was reading the same interface that my sighted friends were using.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcel Oats" <moats at orcon.net.nz>
To: "Farhan" <i.am.Farhan at gmail.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for 
Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:58 PM
Subject: Re[2]: ancient speech synthesizers


> Yes, they have it in their laptops, usually, not sure about the later
> ones though.
>
> Marcel
> At 10:43 PM 12/10/2006, you wrote:
>>HI, i'm not sure if this applies to the current conversation here,
>>but an interesting note.
>>Toshiba makes a bios utility for windows you can read everything
>>with in the bios, change the boot order and all that. I'm not sure
>>how you could actually program one of those for LInux, but maybe you
>>could contact Toshiba and talk to thems.
>>On 10/12/2006 at 4:41 Gregory Nowak said
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>>On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:21:04PM +1300, Marcel Oats wrote:
>> > The other think we could
>> > think about, are why companies such as Asus have not made a piece
>> of windows
>> > software that is able to read the bios parameter block on their
>> > boards, and allow the user to change them, in a nice accessible
>> > interface.
>>
>>Why limit it to Asus, why not ask the same thing of all companies
>>producing motherboards and bios code? Actually, I think that if AMI
>>and Award were to include it in the base bios, the mb companies
>>probably wouldn't pull it out.
>>
>>\as for the why, I'm willing to bet that it's because they don't care,
>>because they think the RND would be too expensive, and probably
>>because these companies think the market for something like this is
>>too small. Granted, something like this wouldn't probably cost too
>>much to develop. While we're discussing things to think about, if such
>>a utility were developed, it would be nice to find it on the CD that
>>comes with the mb, instead of having to pay for yet another program,
>>because you have a disability, and most other people don't. Oh one
>>more thing, let's not limit it to windows, arguably, I think such a
>>utility would be easier to program as a gnu/linux text-based
>>application, though since I haven't done hardware driver programming
>>under gnu/linux, I could be wrong in my estimate of the difficulty level.
>>
>>Greg
>>
>>
>>
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