Timeline for Why did CP/M and MS-DOS use the BIOS instead of their own drivers to access hardware?
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| Jun 1 at 12:48 | history | edited | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | CC BY-SA 4.0 | more greybeard chatter |
| Aug 13, 2017 at 14:22 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | @MichaelKjörling Revised answer to clarify that it primarily talked about CP/M machines. | |
| Aug 13, 2017 at 14:21 | history | edited | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 20 characters in body |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 14:08 | comment | added | user | "Those days the computer was very much what you had when you purchased it." Actually, no, not at all. For the IBM 5150, quite the opposite. Look at the stock IBM PC without any expansion cards: no graphics, no printer, no floppy disk controller. Basically just the CPU, keyboard port, cassette tape recorder port, a small amount of RAM, and power. Wanted to hook up a screen? Install a graphics card (initially MDA or CGA). Wanted a printer? Add the printer port card. Etc. If you go back just a little farther, S-100 systems didn't even have a CPU on the motherboard; that was really just the bus! | |
| Aug 9, 2017 at 14:05 | history | edited | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 86 characters in body |
| Aug 9, 2017 at 13:08 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 9, 2017 at 13:05 | history | answered | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |