The ideas behind the BIOS
The ROM-BIOS has a clumsy name that only hints at what it’s all about: ROM-BIOS is short for Read-Only Memory…
The 8086 PC Family
One of the keys to understanding the PC family is understanding the microprocessor that acts as the working "brains" of…
Some family history of IBM PC
The public history of the PC began in August 1981, when IBM first announced "The IBM Personal Computer," what we…