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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to start an autobooting program without erasing memory?
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Date: 12 Jul 89 05:33:08 GMT
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Actually, there are TSRs which survive a reboot.  They're called
viruses.  So such a thing can be done.  However, it would be a *lot*
easier if the BIOS gave you a little help.  Then you could (easily?)
have recoverable RAM drives (in "conventional" or "extended/expanded"
memory) as well as persistent TSRs.  Are there any useful examples
of such things around?

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu