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The motherboard's first responder, waking your hardware before the operating system bothers to show up.
means Low-level firmware on a chip that boots your computer's hardware and hands control to the operating system.
from Acronym for Basic Input/Output System, coined by Gary Kildall in 1975 for the CP/M operating system, decades before Windows existed.
Still aliveMostly replaced by UEFI, but everyone still says BIOS
Greek bonusIn Greek, bios means life, fittingly
Battery poweredA coin cell keeps its clock and settings alive
Press to enterThat frantic Delete or F2 tapping summons it