Richard Alan Dayan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an apparatus and method for protecting BIOS stored on a direct access storage device into a personnal computer system, which consists of a system processor, a system planar, a random access main memory, read only memory, a protection means and at least one direct access disk device.

TL;DR: In this article, a data processing system and method are described for permitting a portable computer to automatically detect the presence of a printer within a remote area, and responsive to the detection, automatically establishing a communications link with the printer.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method and system aspects for performing an authenticated boot of a computer system in a networked computing environment, which includes integration of boot manager services into a power on self test (POST) routine of a client system.

TL;DR: In this article, a direct access storage device controller coupled between the system processor and direct access disk device includes a protection mechanism for protecting a region of the storage device, which includes a master boot record, a BIOS image and a system reference diskette image.

TL;DR: In this article, a personal computer adapted for use as an economical workstation in a local area network environment (a "LAN station") with provision for loading BIOS into the LAN station from a remote memory storage where the BIOS code is maintained apart from a LAN station.