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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald D Williams, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395652 ;
Abstract
A personal computer is BIOS configured to boot from an installed CD-ROM having at least one bootable partition. To enable swapping of large amounts of data stored on the CD-ROM at the BIOS level after the initial boot, the DOS-BIOS interface is modified so that a CD-ROM emulated as a hard drive file will emulate a floppy diskette image, a medium permitted by the operating system to be changed following an initial boot.