Yes, this is how I believe the RPi works, we are by now too used to the "automagic" features of the common OS's (and BIOSes/UEFI's), I presume that the same eff

Yes, this is how I believe the RPi works, we are by now too used to the "automagic" features of the common OS's (and BIOSes/UEFI's), I presume that the same effect could be obtained by using an old DOS machine with (say) the Panasonic driver, or something like that.