well I got one too

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Jude,

CMOS is a type of physical memory. The BIOS is stored in CMOS memory.
Thus the confusion. Kerry is right, IMHO.

Chuck



On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:41:34PM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Nobody has ever accessed a bios by pressing f2 on booting up any computer 
> ever manufactured.  What they did access and do access is the CMOS. 
> Completely different thing, and anyone who has spent a considerable number 
> of years using versions of DOS separate from windows and screen readers 
> with speech synthesizers can prove that.  Bios writes have to do with 
> screen output and differ from faster screen writes.  The difference with 
> the older screen readers is that those were able to handle bios writes 
> fine but the faster screen writes either couldn't be handled or could be 
> handled with difficulty.  Every agt game ever made had a run program with 
> it and when you played the game with something like run tark /bios then 
> the screen reader could speak.  Also int10 writing in assembly language is 
> bios screen writing.  The Cmos is a memory chip that holds a computer's 
> time and date and information about hard drive and other peripherals.
> 
> 
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