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Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

188 points · 74 comments · midnightfish

  1. m463 · · focus · HN ↗
    So isn't the BIOS sort of an intermediary artifact?

    I think when CPM booted, there must have been some hardcoded disk firmware to get the boot sector into memory.

    The IBM PC bios was burned into the system.

    I think the boot process is multifaceted and can have as many stages.

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