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Please note that one of the screenshots shows: Z80 CP/M BIOS 1.0 by G. Searle 2007-13 CP/M 2.2 Copyright 1979 (c) by Digital Research A curious thing in

Please note that one of the screenshots shows: Z80 CP/M BIOS 1.0 by G. Searle 2007-13 CP/M 2.2 Copyright 1979 (c) by Digital Research A curious thing in all that is that Gary Kildall, the founder of Digital Research and the creator of CP/M, invented the concept of BIOS back then in the late 70s. We still use it today! Please note how closely that CP/M boot text resembles newer variants we still meet in modern PCs.

m1573rp34130dy 8y ago
...BIOS and CMOS made popular computing possible for the unbaptized masses...the average user would just walk away if they had to, among other things initiate the chips onboard and write "binary blobs" to git the machine into a state for booting...now where did those punch cards go to ..? [...farts dust]