The BIOS has evolved very little since the birth of the PC in 1981, remaining a chunk of hand-crafted assembly language code most users know only for the series of arcane configuration and test messages fleetingly displayed when they turn on their PC. Intel first signalled that all … [Read more...]
When a sound card records analogue audio, it is converting the sound waveform into digital information and then copying this … [Read More...]
A drive bay is an area within a PC's system case designed to accommodate drive devices, such as a hard disk drive, floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, tape … [Read More...]
The memory that holds the video image is also referred to as the frame buffer and is usually implemented on the graphics … [Read More...]