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- VISUAL SYSTEM INFORMATION - VERSION 1.0
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- Visual System Information will provide you with a graphical represent-
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- ation of a system's configuration. I work on many different IBM PC's
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- and compatiables on any given day and needed a quick little utility to
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- give me a general snapshot of the system (as opposed to running a full
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- diagnostic check). Since I used Turbo Pascal to write VSI, it was easy
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- to add the pictorial display, and all the client's who saw it thought
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- it was "cute". They also felt good when I gave it to them as a
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- "freebie". Fortunately for me, they don't realize how quickly it was
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- to write this, and feel they are receiving a free copy of one of my
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- intensive midnight labors (if they feel this good, who am I to tell
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- them it wasn't!!).
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- VSI will work on both mono and color video boards. VSI performs all of
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- its system tests using DOS and/or BIOS calls with the exception of the
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- "PC Model" (PC, XT, AT or PCjr), and the date of the BIOS chip. These
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- two checks are performed via absolute addresses. VSI has been used on
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- all IBM models using all versions of PC-DOS and MS-DOS. It has also
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- been used on Zeniths, Compaqs, AT&T 6300's and 6300 Plus's. The only
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- "quirk" that I have found is on the 8088 based Compaq portables (? they
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- are 'self-contained' but they sure the hell ain't portable!!). No
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- matter whether they were booted with PC-DOS or generic MS-DOS, the
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- model type and BIOS chip date cannot be found at the absolute memory
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- addresses given in the IBM BIOS listing. But as alot of people are
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- finding out, "THIS AIN'T THE ONLY DIFFERENCES POPPING UP!!".
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