BIOS pronunciation

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Hi Ray,

Hmm, that's odd. I listened, and the speaker sounds to me like he gives it a slightly Spanish pronunciation.

I've always heard it said as

bi sounds like 'buy'.

os sounds like the 'oss' in 'toss'.

Best wishes, Clive

CliveHmm, that's odd. I listened, and the speaker sounds to me like he gives it a slightly Spanish pronunciation.

I never took it as sounding Spanish. I've worked on and around computers for a very long time (since the time MS-DOS version 3.3 was the latest and greatest) and I've never heard any other pronunciation that the one on Answers.com.

OT

You can get the pronunciation here:

http://www.english4it.com/dictionary/44

Yes it knowns BASIC INPU OUT SYSTEM. Its a software is stored on a non-volatile ROM chip built into the system on the mother board. The BIOS software is specifically designed to work with the particular type of system in question, including having a knowledge of the workings of various devices that make up the complementary chipset of the system. In modern computer systems, the BIOS chip's conte

I have heard both "Bye-oss" and "Bye-ose" (ose rhyming with dose, as in cuchu's explanation.)

Basic Input Output System.

The set of routines stored in read-only memory that enable a computer to start the operating system and to communicate with the various devices in the system, such as disk drives, keyboard, monitor, printer, and communications ports.