-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (11% of Full) My web site is: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net, my phone is: 1-518-334-9022, and I also Jabber. My JID is: chuckh at jabber.org -------- National security is in your hands - guard it well. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHpimu0maTgpPXM9cRAo2ZAJ4yVidkoDlWGgqrsNU/sKbm06bjkgCfaqSJ Eu9Vnh11ZGVp6xoFQeVZj/A= =pC1x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
