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Basic Input/Output
Personal blog · basicinputoutput.comsystemshardwareprogramming
Basic Input/Output is a personal blog at basicinputoutput.com about systems, hardware and programming. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Basic Input/Output for posts on BIOS and firmware, including a Tetris clone in BIOS, Windows UI history, and a tour of Intel's CHIPSEC platform security tool.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about UEFI BIOS C programming software development engineering computer science history
What Hacker News says?
There are also Tetris clones in BIOS: https://www.basicinputoutput.com/2018/11/the-great-tetris-re...
Comment linking /2018/11/the-great-tetris-renaissance-in-bios.html
on “Tetris-OS: An operating system that only plays Tetris”Submitted Nikolaj Schlej: Analyzing the Intel Galileo UEFI Source Code with PVS-Studio as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSometimes the "any clickable area => make it a Windows control/button" works and sometimes it doesn't. I talked with the programmer for the 16-bit Windows calculator app, calc.exe. Any naive programmer with a first-reading of Charles Petzold's Programming Windows book would assume each button in the calculator app was an actual Windows button control. Nope. All those calculator buttons, back when Windows first shipp…
Comment linking /2017/08/windows-calculator-windows-calculator.html
on “The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering”Submitted BIOS RWEverything. Yes, Everything. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGood question. From https://github.com/chipsec/chipsec : For any questions or suggestions please contact us at: chipsec@intel.com For AMD related questions or suggestions please contact Gabriel Kerneis at: Gabriel.Kerneis@ssi.gouv.fr CHIPSEC should issue a statement about potential support for non-Intel platforms, https://www.basicinputoutput.com/2016/05/a-tour-of-intel-chi... > CHIPSEC began its life as an internal…
Comment linking /2016/05/a-tour-of-intel-chipsec.html
on “Platbox: UEFI and SMM Platform Security Assessment Tool for AMD and Intel”