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POST as in the short beep you hear on an old sad PC booting properly but not in the literal sense.
by gaudat 3y ago
POST as in the short beep you hear on an old sad PC booting properly but not in the literal sense.
- msla 3y agoPOST as in Power-On Self Test.
- yladiz 3y agoRight, in this case what does the OP mean by POST? The HTTP call, or something else that’s with the same acronym or spelling?
- computerliker69 3y agoPower on self test
- TheRealPomax 3y agoWhat do you mean "what does the OP mean"? It's literally the first sentence of the article...?
- mitt_romney_12 3y agoI think he's referring to where OP said "but not in the literal sense"
- verandaguy 3y agoI don't get this comment, modern PCs still undergo POST and motherboards have gotten progressively better at displaying POST outcomes (from beep patterns to seven-segment onboard displays). Macs have POST rituals, detailed (alongside other boot routines) to an almost extreme extent in this article.
- rm445 3y agoAnd the pun in the headline being 'The Last Post', the bugle call played at funerals. (To American ears, it may sound like a slow mournful version of 'Taps').
- aendruk 3y agoNo, POST as in the actual test, not just the sound. The article speculates that unlike “other models that have mute boots”, here there might literally be no power-on self-test: “there are no accessible records of any POST taking place on Apple silicon Macs, no other evidence that they do, and even if they did it’s hard to see what they might achieve.”