[HN Gopher] Has Apple sounded the last POST?
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       Has Apple sounded the last POST?
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2023-05-12 12:06 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | gaudat wrote:
       | POST as in the short beep you hear on an old sad PC booting
       | properly but not in the literal sense.
        
         | msla wrote:
         | POST as in Power-On Self Test.
        
           | yladiz wrote:
           | Right, in this case what does the OP mean by POST? The HTTP
           | call, or something else that's with the same acronym or
           | spelling?
        
             | computerliker69 wrote:
             | Power on self test
        
             | TheRealPomax wrote:
             | What do you mean "what does the OP mean"? It's literally
             | the first sentence of the article...?
        
         | verandaguy wrote:
         | I don't get this comment, modern PCs still undergo POST and
         | motherboards have gotten progressively better at displaying
         | POST outcomes (from beep patterns to seven-segment onboard
         | displays).
         | 
         | Macs have POST rituals, detailed (alongside other boot
         | routines) to an almost extreme extent in this article.
        
         | rm445 wrote:
         | And the pun in the headline being 'The Last Post', the bugle
         | call played at funerals. (To American ears, it may sound like a
         | slow mournful version of 'Taps').
        
       | pulvinar wrote:
       | I'm surprised the article didn't tell how to run diagnostics on
       | an M1 Mac:
       | 
       | Shut it down, hold the power button until you get a screen with
       | some buttons, hold down Command-D until it brings up a
       | diagnostics screen, and answer a couple questions (your language,
       | run local, etc.). Then it takes a minute and posts results. And
       | lastly you click Reboot.
        
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