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Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:21:33 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: More mysteries on COM1 (TP 600X) RESOLVED

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In <3F201EC4.5BF30173@pacbell.net>, on 07/24/03
at 09:59 AM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>Wouldn't something like this normally be controlled by a BIOS setting:
>turn it ON, and _whatever_ OS should just see it ? (Well, maybe not DOS,
>which was ancient history by the time more contemporary laptops -- even
>the 600 -- came along . . . . )

IBM BIOSs are non-standard in many ways. The orginal Thinkpads were
designed with the enterprise user in mind and it shows. PS and PS2
provide command line access to the BIOS settings which makes things like
remote management possible. There are other enterprise class features.
For example, my 770X can save 3 different sets of BIOS settings (mobile,
work, home) and there's a GUI to do the switching. Makes it a lot easier
to train the road warrior employees.

Steven

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