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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 12:12:51 pm by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 3 Last edited on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 8:43:24 am by JohnMcPherson Revert
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-Basic Input Output System
+An [Acronym] for __B__asic [I/O] __S__ystem
  
-The BIOS is the part of a PC used to get from the point of powering on the computer to beginning to execute an OS . It does things like update [CPU] microcode, setup the [PCI] and [ISA] busses, initialize the [IDE] and keyboard controllers, etc. 
+The [ BIOS] is the first piece of code executed at powerup of a [ PC], used to load and execute an OperatingSystem . It does things like update [CPU] microcode, set up the [PCI] and [ISA] busses, initialize the [IDE] and keyboard controllers, etc. 
  
-There are also BIOS services provided to programmers to do things like access the disk and display things on the screen, but those aren't really used much outside of [DOS]. 
+There are also [ BIOS] services provided to programmers to do things like access the disk and display things on the screen, but those aren't really used much outside of [DOS]. 
  
-If you are interested in programming using services provided by the BIOS, you may want to look for Ralph Brown's Interrupt list. 
+If you are interested in programming using services provided by the [ BIOS] , you may want to look for Ralph Brown's Interrupt list. 
  
-The BIOS usually has a built in utility for configuring features of the motherboard chipset. This would include things like setting the time, telling it which IDE devices you want to enable (and possibly what they are), whether or not you have a floppy drive, access timings for [RAM] and [Bus]ses, etc... 
+The [ BIOS] usually has a built in utility for configuring features of the motherboard chipset. This would include things like setting the time, telling it which IDE devices you want to enable (and possibly what they are), whether or not you have a floppy drive, access timings for [RAM] and [Bus]ses, etc... 
  
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- See also OpenFirmware, [I/O]  
+See also: OpenFirmware