| ▲ | charcircuit 6 hours ago | |
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 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
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 | ||