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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Scott Berry Email: n7zib at bresnan.net