Editing Talk:Suzumiya Haruhi:Volume5 The Day of Sagittarius (section)

== BIOS ==

<i>Asahina asked looking terrified at Nagato, but Nagato didn't even look at her. Her eyes were fixed on the screen, which was no longer showing the game graphics, but a black background with a bunch of letters, numbers and symbols, which reminded me of those <b>BIOS interface screens</b> from the computers of the dinosaur age. What's more, the words and symbols were scrolling by at an incredible speed.</i>

Are you sure that it is BIOS? All computers have a BIOS/CMOS when they boot up. I believe you are thinking of DOS.
:Well, maybe the author himself had it wrong ^^; [[User:Darkoneko|DarkoNeko]] <small>[[User_Talk:Darkoneko|talk]]</small> 14:15, 26 September 2006 (PDT)

:The important part of this sentence is '''Dinosaur Age Computer'''.  Prior to the IBM PC/XT range, most 8bit "micros" has the bios built into the OS.  DOS (Disk Operating System) was part of the floppy disc drive expansion card/cartridge (which included bios extensions. DOS itself was mainly found on a floppy included with the drive interface.)
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:You also have to remember that the Author is Japanese, and probably used an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX MSX computer], which like the Spectrum and other Micros, had a combined BIOS/OS system.
:[http://www.msxa.org/player/basic.png MSX Screen] from emulator.
:JBV^_^