27 Aug
2005
27 Aug
'05
8:08 a.m.
>>>> "Brian" == Brian Knittel
<brian at quarterbyte.com> writes:
Brian> Hi all, Does anybody out there know for certain when the term
Brian> BIOS was coined? I believe it was Gary Kildall, and from what
Brian> I can find, it was around 1978 that he abstracted the I/O and
Brian> localized it in what he called the BIOS. Anyone know
Brian> differently?
I'm not sure at this point, but some vague memory says that there was
a very basic "OS" for the IBM 360 called BIO (Basic I/O). Sort of the
IBM analog to the old paper-tape packages for the PDP-11 and similar
systems.
paul