Short for the Basic Input and Output System, the BIOS is essentially a chip on your PC's motherboard that initializes all other components when the PC starts up, like the GPU, CPU, RAM, and others.

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on ...

Kazuki Matsuo of Japan's FFRI Security specialises in research covering computers' Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), the code that starts up ...

Learn about inputs and outputs with this KS2 primary computing guide from BBC Bitesize for years 5 and 6.