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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Patrick Turnage wrote:

> 1 boot to dos
> in the autoexec.bat file add the lines to load the drivers for the dectalk
> chipset
> 2 have autoexec.bat run loadlin and boot your system..

While this would indeed work, I don't think it's fair to make anyone who
wants to use a dectalk Pc have DOS installed as well as Linux.  And I think
this is how Kirk and co will see it.

Geoff.