Hi all, Does anybody out there know for certain when the term BIOS was coined? I believe it was Gary Kildall, and from what I can find, it was around 1978 that he abstracted the I/O and localized it in what he called the BIOS. Anyone know differently? Also -- was the BIOS stored on the CP/M floppy, or was it in ROM/EPROM? If not, how did CP/M machines boot? Was there a dedicated boot ROM that was used just for startup, and then the BIOS took over? I had one back in the day, but I sure can't remember this detail. This is for a writing project, so I'd like to get it right, Thanks! Brian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _| _| _| Brian Knittel _| _| _| Quarterbyte Systems, Inc. _| _| _| Tel: 1-510-559-7930 _| _| _| Fax: 1-510-525-6889 _| _| _| Email: brian at quarterbyte.com _| _| _| http://www.quarterbyte.com