Timeline for Are BIOS ROMs interchangeable among different vendor's PCs?
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| Jun 30, 2020 at 3:06 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 26, 2020 at 15:06 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @BrianH I agree. I have a hard time with such pairs. I did it a few times, but all were triggered by questions brought up by others in some comment. To me it feels wrong to ask a question where I already know the answer. Also, I doubt that most stuff I research has any meaning for a wider audience. For example yesterday I tried to see if there's still a source for ST's PSD4256 (or PSD 813) companion chips (awesome device for classic MPUs to build SOC like systems) or if the µPSD can somehow be used as replacement (disabling its 8051) ... | |
| Jun 26, 2020 at 13:34 | comment | added | wizzwizz4♦ | Yeah… I really need to get the blog going again. | |
| Jun 26, 2020 at 13:10 | comment | added | Brian H | @wizzwizz4 It would be better to have a Blog for such interesting musings. | |
| Jun 26, 2020 at 11:53 | comment | added | wizzwizz4♦ | @Raffzahn Note: when this happens, it'd be great if you could post a question / answer pair – by convention, the question in such cases only has to be a couple of lines. There's a tick box at the bottom of the "ask question" box for this purpose. | |
| Jun 26, 2020 at 2:24 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @BrianH Which theory? As for myself, I have to admit I'm bad at writing a question. The research needed to make it a valid one, usually reveals the answer. In many cases that happens considerable before I got enough references to support the question :) | |
| Jun 26, 2020 at 1:51 | comment | added | Brian H | @Raffzahn You, and anyone else brave enough, are free to test that theory. | |
| Jun 25, 2020 at 23:49 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @BrianH Without joining the less than desirable answer vs. question game. A good answer migh be as much work than a good question. Ross did provide some interesting answers so far. | |
| Jun 25, 2020 at 18:03 | history | edited | user722 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 25, 2020 at 17:14 | vote | accept | Brian H | ||
| Jun 25, 2020 at 15:32 | comment | added | Joshua | Early sequence startup is horrible, and was worse on older processors. Originally, BIOS had to bring up RAM. Try making data-driven code in that environment and you'll find out the difficulties involved. | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 15:59 | comment | added | wizofwor | BIOS idea was inherited from CP/M. CP/M BIOS was the part of the operating system which was responsible for low level functions controlling the actual hardware components. Providing an abstraction layer for the rest of the operating system. While the other parts of CP/M remains almost standart among various machines, BIOS portion was to be adapted to the particular hardware. In summary, BIOS is the hardware specific software designed to provide a standard interface to the rest of the system. | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 3:58 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 24, 2020 at 0:48 | history | edited | Brian H | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2020 at 23:56 | comment | added | dave | There is such a thing as a BIOS because machines are not all compatible. | |
| Jun 23, 2020 at 23:24 | history | edited | Raffzahn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2020 at 21:45 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | Basically no. This is why coreboot.org exist. | |
| Jun 23, 2020 at 20:29 | history | edited | Brian H | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2020 at 20:26 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 20 | |
| Jun 23, 2020 at 20:18 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 23, 2020 at 20:14 | answer | added | Justme | timeline score: 22 | |
| Jun 23, 2020 at 20:05 | history | edited | Brian H | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2020 at 19:57 | history | asked | Brian H | CC BY-SA 4.0 |