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Dear PC-INFO user:
As many of you are aware, it is my policy to furnish the users of
PC-INFO who spent the time and effort to contact me directly with
a personal copy of new releases. PC-INFO, Version 1.90 has just
been released for limited distribution. Tandy 1000 & 3000 series,
the Tandy 1400LT laptop, and their 80386 equipped 4000 as well as
Data General/1, AST Premium 286/386, and some PC Limited machines
are now recognized and correctly identified. In addition, PC-INFO
now recognizes and correctly identifies the IBM XT/286 as well as
the PS/2 Models 25,30 & 30-286,50,60,70 & 80 and the recent 80386
machine from AT&T, the 6386 WGS. Descriptions of the 3 1/2" disk
drives have been revised to display both the nominal 720K & 1.4Mb
capacity. The descriptions of 5 1/4" disk drives have also been
improved. PC-INFO now recognizes and identifies Intel 80387 math
chips. In addition, those machines having the letters IBM in ROM,
or not specifically identified by manufacturer, but which have an
AWARD, American Megatrend (AMI), ERSO or Phoenix BIOS will be now
identified by PC-INFO as IBM compatibles. The recognition of RAM
disks created by various device drivers has been improved so that
they are no longer identified as 3 1/2" or 5 1/4" floppy drives.
Partition sizes greater than 32 Mb created with either IBM PC-DOS
or Microsoft MS-DOS Version 4.xx are now recognized and reported
correctly by PC-INFO. Disk sizes and free space up to 999,999,999
may now be displayed.
The Disk Information screen will now handle those machines with a
single floppy drive correctly. Rather than skipping drives A: and
B: completely, it will now report the information about whichever
logical floppy drive the floppy disk is currently inserted in and
not omit the floppy drive as was done in previous releases.
A help screen has been added, which explains the optional command
line switches. It is displayed by entering either /? or /h on the
command line when PC-INFO is invoked.
The code has been revised to properly handle the case of a CGA or
EGA board operating with a monochrome monitor. Identification of
VGA boards has been incorporated in PC-INFO.
It is now possible to force PC-INFO to treat the video adapter as
either a CGA (80x25 color mode) or a MDA (80x25 B&W text mode) in
the event that the program does not deal with your display system
properly. See PC-INFO.DOC for additional information.
A PIF file is now provided to facilitate the use of PC-INFO in the
the Microsoft Windows (tm) operating environment.
The program used to report the machine code (in hex), ID.COM, has
been replaced by PC-IDENT.COM. This program locates and displays
ascii character strings found in ROM which match certain criteria
as to character arrangements. These strings are used to identify
the manufacturer and model of the computer being tested.
=================================================================
Known Hardware/Software Compatability Problems
=================================================================
- 1 -
Execution on systems running COMPAQ MS-DOS 3.31, equipped with a
hard disk formatted and partitioned with this release of DOS, may
cause drives D and above to be incorrectly reported as RAM rather
than Fixed Disks. This appears to result from the method COMPAQ
chose to use to permit partitions sizes larger than 32 Mb. Since
I do not have current access to either a COMPAQ machine or their
DOS 3.31, it's unlikely that I will be able to resolve this error
in the near future.
- 2 -
It has just been brought to my attention that when Quarterdeck's
QEMM.SYS is loaded, the amount of Extended Memory reported under
COMPAQ DOS 3.31 will actually include the Expanded Memory shown.
Since I do not have any systems running Deskview (tm), again this
is unlikely to be resolved in the near future.
=================================================================
Enjoy the software and keep in touch!
Programs included in this distribution:
1. OVERVIEW brief summary of PC-INFO/PC-IDENT output
2. PC-INFO.COM executable code for PC-INFO, Version 1.90
3. PC-INFO.DOC documentation & information about PC-INFO
4. PC-INFO.PIF .pif file recommended to use with PC-INFO
in the Microsoft Windows (tm) environment
5. PC-INFO.REV log of revisions to PC-INFO
6. PC-IDENT.COM executable code for PC-IDENT,Version 1.31
7. READ.ME this file
8. LICENSE.CRE license agreement required for continued
noncommercial use of these programs
9. VENDOR.DOC requirements for commercial vendors who
wish to distribute our software
10. WHAT'S.NEW summary of changes since previous version
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