It was whatever the BIOS-vendor made of it. There were many besides the more known AMI (American Megatrends) and AWARD. Long story short: you may have a point

It was whatever the BIOS-vendor made of it. There were many besides the more known AMI (American Megatrends) and AWARD. Long story short: you may have a point there, because lossy memory compression :-) OTOH some memories aren't that lossy, and I'm absolutely sure of the 'variety' of this one message across different vendors.