[lug] Steganography (was: newbie question - rc.sysinit)

[Chris Riddoch]

Calvin Dodge <caldodge at fpcc.net> writes:

> Chris Riddoch wrote:
> >
> > shove into the board.  Software bioses allow for mediocre bioses, for
> 
> They also allow for TRUE upgrades, to give computers capabilities they didn't
> have - like adding INT 13 disk access (for hard drives larger then 8 gigs) to a
> BIOS which previously maxed out with LBA.

Yeah, you can also make an older BIOS boot from a CD with software
upgrades.  I was just being cynical, since I've personally run into
more crummy bioses in the last five years, where I never really had to
think much about what the bios was doing before that.

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