On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 6:00:51 PM UTC-4, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article ,
says...
Could you always boot from a USB drive? My BIOS didn't have that
option.
Most of todays computers no longer use a "bios"

That has still become the buzz word for the firmware that turns a
bunch of random chips into a computer.



If not, what takes the place of the BIOS ? Maybe something like it by a
different name ? The Microsoft type computers I know of need something
in the hardware/firmware to tell the processor how to start up the hard
drive to load an operating system of some sort and where the video and
key board/mouse is.

Maybe something like the Chrome Book does not use it as such.

He may be referring to UEFI, which is the modernized version of a BIOS,
but it's still referred to as a BIOS by the industry and it performs
the same function.