--- Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net> wrote:
> That Phoenix BIOS dates to 1994, and I don't think
> BIOSes were 
> flash-upgradeable back in those days.  I looked once
> for BIOS update but
> couldn't find anything.  Maybe I'd need a hardware
> chip.  That old computer is
> not really worth spending any serious money on,
> probably not worth spending any
> serious time on.  But I am curious to see if I can
> work around the bugs and
> install Linux or NetBSD so as to be able to read the
> CD-ROM.  It is a
> Cx486DX2-S at 66 MHz with 20 MB RAM, so I don't
> think I can run any current
> graphic web browsers with acceptable speed.

Yeah, but I bet someone somewhere made a plug in cmos
for that at some point (if yours is removeable). When
I installed one of those evergreen processors on my
girlfriends machine, it had all kinds of bios update
information. This was a 486 something or other...

Andy

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