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Re: S-MOS cardpc warning

On Mon, 20 Apr 1998  wrote:

> And, since the bios is on the cardpc, if the unit ever separates
> from the battery for any reason, you lose your bios setup and must
> restore it manually.

Are the default BIOS settings usable, assuming no IDE device is
attached?

Also:  What is the system interface to the optional on-board 4MB
flash?  Is it a linear device mapped or windowed into the memory
address space, with specs available for twiddling it?  Or is it some
cheesy DOS-only "solution" like the M-Systems Disk-On-Chip 2000, where
they consider their programming interface proprietary?

And finally, is pricing available anywhere?  (mostly interested in 8-
and 16-MB 486/40 with optional flash, if I can make it usable from
Linux....)

(Apologies [and flame away!] if these questions have already been
covered -- I only recently became interested in this thread.... 
Anybody know a way to retrieve an entire thread from the archive
server?)

Steven Work
Renaissance Labs

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