Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!jnk
From: jnk@drutx.ATT.COM (KelleyJN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anybody seen a ROM-based SETUP pgm for ATs
Message-ID: <6826@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 88 16:01:42 GMT
References: <2790@dalcs.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
Lines: 22

in article <2790@dalcs.UUCP>, lane@dalcs.UUCP (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane) says:
 
 Dramatization deleted

> Seriously, this has happened to people I know and It struck me as really dumb
> not to have this facility written into the BIOS, much like the disk format
> utility in the XT disk controller ROMs, and to have it automatically 
> invoked when the machine sensed it's EPROM was clobbered, or maybe be
> Alt-Del-SysReq or somesuch.
> 
> So I wonder if anybody makes such  product, a plug-in ROM chip with the
> goodies right on it.  In fact does anybody make any ROM-based software
> for XT/AT's besides BIOSes and those supplied with XT disk controllers?
> 
> John Wright      //////////////////      Phone:  902-424-3805  or  902-424-6527

The DTK AT Clone that I just bought has setup in ROM all of there new AT
Mother boards come that way.  I don't know if the ROM is available by itself.

					    John Kelley
					    AT&T End User Organization
					    Denver, CO