well I got one too

[Kerry Hoath]

Actually the bios is stored in flash memory or eprom or rom,
the configuration information escd and acpi nvs are stored in cmos memory.
Cmos memory beeing that memory that is battery backed and in older systems 
is part of the realtime clock subsystem. I'm not sure if they integrate that 
into the superio chipsets these days but i'd wager the cmos in most systems 
is near the battery, usually a cr2032 in many systems.

the bios on the other hand is that thing that provox hooks a few interrupts 
in to do its job <smile>
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at ftml.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: well I got one too


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