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charcircuit 29 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

BIOS wasn't a concept until 1975 with CP/M so it isn't possible for a computer older than that to have one.

RiverCrochet 29 days ago [–]

Many people unfortunately completely conflate one or more of these terms to generically mean "ROM-resident code that enables a device to self-bootstrap": BIOS, UEFI, firmware, bootloader, boot ROM, boot flash, IPL, (boot) monitor, microcode

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