On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:24:15 UTC, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

Hardly a BIOS. Hardly Basic. Most (nearly all) BIOSes don't even drive
the device in either interrupt or DMA mode. I think the use of the term
BIOS is very misleading. Proper device drivers do, of course (I've
written enough of them!).

Wouldn't have been my choice of words either, but the BIOS was
actually written originally to provide the low level interface
to the hardware.

Yes...circa 1977 as I recall....!

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