• halfapage@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    OK but was programming interface of BIOS always connected to the system? I thought you needed a programmer to flash it.

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      1 day ago

      Even in DOS days you could flash it from the running system. It was so common that for a while flashing a vendor’s BIOS update entailed booting from a DOS bootdisk.