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When a PC first starts it's essentially an origina IBM PC from the 80s including the original text mode and built in fonts. You can write text in this mode lite
by slededit 9y ago
When a PC first starts it's essentially an origina IBM PC from the 80s including the original text mode and built in fonts. You can write text in this mode literally by copying ascii characters to a specific memory address.
The hardware handles the job of actually putting characters on the screen.
- rbanffy 9y ago> When a PC first starts it's essentially an origina IBM PC from the 80s including the original text mode and built in fonts. Thanks. Now I feel dirty for touching my modern MacBook and imagining that IBM horror inside it.
- slededit 9y agoI believe macs are UEFI only and so may not contain most of the old peripherals. This is only required for legacy BIOS booting.