Re: Does the SNES have a BIOS? (nt)

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This message was posted by Mark, posted on May 17, 2001 at 19:40:03 coming from 213.122.157
This message is a reply to Re: Does the SNES have a BIOS? (nt) posted from Jigsaw posted at May 17, 2001 at 13:09:05
> > It must have... or?

> Of course it does. The BIOS is the Basic Input Output System. Just about every electronics device has a BIOS.

> Jigsaw

Of course it doesn't. The SNES does not have a BIOS.

There is a small amount of ROM code inside the sound CPU, but that is for the sound CPU only, not externally accessible. The lockout chip has its own program inside, but again, that is not accessible. Neither of those could be called a BIOS.

There is no built-in 65816 code.

-- Mark

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Message	> > > It must have... or? > > Of course it does. The BIOS is the Basic Input Output System. Just about every electronics device has a BIOS. > > Jigsaw > Of course it doesn't. The SNES does not have a BIOS. > There is a small amount of ROM code inside the sound CPU, but that is for the sound CPU only, not externally accessible. The lockout chip has its own program inside, but again, that is not accessible. Neither of those could be called a BIOS. > There is no built-in 65816 code. > -- Mark
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