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andyjohnson0 on June 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Compiling the Original Commodore 64 KERNAL Source

Agreed. I'd say the onboard s/w was more like a simple version of what we now term a bios.

digi_owl on June 13, 2017 [–]

A very apt comparison.

And much like with the C64, the BIOS maintains a memory map.

http://wiki.osdev.org/Memory_Map_%28x86%29

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