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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: DMI anyone ? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Aug 1997 16:54:47 +0930."
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In message <199708030724.QAA13169@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Michael Smith
 writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying:
>> 
>> Does anybody have in insight or interest in the DMI stuff ?
>> 
>> (http://www.dmtf.org)
>
>See the earlier thread on SMBIOS/DMI, and Phoenix's tech stuff page
>for the SMBIOS spec.
>
>Bottom line : we need a means for making 16-bit BIOS calls (16-bit
>protected mode interface is part of the spec)...

I was in that thread.  This was more a question along the line of

"would DMI/SMBIOS support (whatever it means) buy us anything ?"

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