Functionality Of BIOS
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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What is the function of BIOS chips? I have often wondered this. How did they come about? How do they work? Yes, BIOS chips have been a bit of a mystery. I will research this and see if I can understand them a bit more by doing so.
"The ROM BIOS chip transfers information from the keyboard into computer language of zeros and ones." This was the first thing I came across while searching for a true definition of a BIOS chip. The location of this was on the discovery channel's page, and it seemed to be meant for children, so I decided that this must have been a *very* simplified explanation, to give children a general gist of what it does. I disagree with teaching children this way, for if they ever become a computer science major they will have to be untrained of this illusion (but that is a separate paper entirely).
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