Reading BIOS on PC under UNIX ??

Peter Lengewitz lengewit at ludger.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Wed Oct 31 22:11:33 AEST 1990



Hi.

Does someone know if and how it is possible to access the contents of
the BIOS of a PC'386 via C program under UNIX (Interactive UNIX and
SCO UNIX)?

I would like to get a few informations out of the BIOS, e.g. the version
number, to calculate a checksum. The idea is to make a software package 
executable only on one PC.

Any solutions?
Any C programs ?
Any other solutions to protect software from running on several PC's?

Thanks.
           Peter.



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