>> But seriously, if there arn't true graphic bioses now there will
>> be soon.. Compaq is already putting the bios on a hdd partition..
H> I think Compaq is an abberration. Everyone hates their solution,
H> and the conventional BIOS vendors don't seem to be biting. If
H> anything I think the WinBIOS is a half-assed attempt at staving
H> off Compaq.
Compaq isn't the only one doing odd things like that. Consider my TI
(now Acer) laptop (Extensa 660CDT). It has a BIOS from a mainstream
vendor (Phoenix). It supports a "sleep mode" that basically swaps the
entire machine state out to disk and turns the power off. Nice. But
dig this: the place it saves that state is a file in the DOS (Windows)
file system!
(Not surprisingly, attempts to invoke that function under Linux don't
work well...)
paul
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