Talk:Option ROM
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[edit]Hmmm. have we forgot that option roms do the x86 code too? they're not just firmware, they are CPU code!
Cassette BASIC or network boot ROM
[edit]Obviously this section should be about the much more relevant and widespread network boot ROM, with a brief history of IBM Cassette BASIC as an example. This article on ROM should not be solely about the PCs with IBM-clone/"Wintel" heritage. For example, it is not made clear that INT 18H and 19H are specific to IBM models, at a time when there were many different 8-bit computers using different cassette interfaces. I may try to change this in the near future. For "network boot ROM," which, I would assume, applies to many mainframes and non-PC computers, it seems a little silly to share the heading with Cassette BASIC, which was ephemeral and unknown and used even by early IBM-clone adopters. Please, someone with knowledge of non-PC Boot ROMs should contribute to round out this section, at least. Cuvtixo (talk) 17:55, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
UEFI
[edit]This article completely misses how the option ROMs are used/initialized in case of UEFI-only system. --Yuriz (talk) 11:18, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
BEV pointer
[edit]The Identifier BEV is used several times in the article, but nowhere is it explained. The only clue is, that it seems to be a pointer, but the meaning isn't explained. --IT-Compiler (talk) 23:18, 27 January 2022 (UTC)