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[Marcel Oats]

I still use cmos_ram on my toy, but that may not work anymore.
Not sure about this.

At 07:55 Ay M 14/10/2006, you wrote:
>There was also a dos utility called "cmos-ram" as I recall, which copied
>the cmos to an editable text file, and copied it back again. So if you
>knew the format of the file, you could make changes easily.
>
>
>On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:42:25AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > By IBM PC do you mean a machine made by IBM, or a machine compatible
> > with that architecture? If you are referring to a compatible machine,
> > then this should still be doable I think either with a DOS/win9x boot
> > disk, or it should even be doable with gdb under GNU/Linux. Do you
> > remember what the memory address was?
> >
> > Also, I just remembered that there were some 486 machines, and even
> > some early 586 machines that let you get into bios via a hotkey
> > sequence from within DOS. I remember using one such machine with
> > provox7, and while the accessibility wasn't great, because the numpad
> > review functionality went away as soon as you used that hotkey
> > combination to get into bios, it still did do the job, since every
> > single key press read the full screen from what I recall, which
> > incidentally, was in columns as well.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:07:33AM -0400, Angelo Sonnesso wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
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