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Re: HELP! (RE: IBM password) (PC)

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From: hombas!rudy.hehn
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 22:33
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- -> That "I always warn people not to use" covers a lot of territory! In
- -> the business world, that password feature is very desirable. It keeps

I was, perhaps, a little imprecise in my phrasing. I should have said
'warn people not to use unless they don't mind the inconvenience of
losing the password and not having system access until they recover it'.
In a business setting, that feature is desirable, as you pointed out.

- -> circumstances. I suspect that there is a market for this - picure
- -> walking into a better grade of computer store. A PC in the order area
- -> presents a menu driven system. You select your present (or just
- -> ordered) motherboard, then choose from a list of BIOS options like:

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- -> Seclect what you need, then the system programs a set of chips (a
- -> matter of minutes from direct observation.) Given the amount of

An intriguing and desirable concept. It would be easy enough for the
software to keep track of the number of times each BIOS was chosen so
that the BIOS companies could get their share of the profit. Which
brings to my mind another concept: would it even be possible to have a
virus scanner/cleaner/integrity checker as part of a new BIOS, available
to the operating system as needed?
                    
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