luth-astro{at}earthlink.net wrote:

>In , on 03/20/2004 
>   at 05:10 PM, "Don{ald} O.
Woodall" said:
>
>>>No. It just powers the non-volatile CMOS-RAM, not the BIOS!
>>>      
>>>
>>Mike
>>    
>>
>>Thanks for upgrading my technical understanding.  Never did have a
real good grasp of CMOS-RAM and the BIOS and there sameness and/or
>>difference.
>>    
>>
>So - what?  The firmware is copied to RAM for speed?
>  
>

Jim,
Only if you elect to do so in the BIOS settings, and also only *some* of 
the BIOS code is copied. That's of no use with OS/2 and other advanced 
Operating Systems which replace it with their own, but only with DOS, 
which uses the BIOS information exclusively.  If you look on the OS/2 
installation diskettes [or their images], you'll notice all the *.BIO 
files that IBM uses to replace the Firmware code with its own.

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Regards,
Mike

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