Post B5eztEx4yzcxEPCl8a by Nero@chaos.social
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 (DIR) Post #B5ez0PeRV85qUJLNgm by alina@girldick.gay
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       ... why does my laptop support booting from floppy disks lmao what
       
 (DIR) Post #B5eztEx4yzcxEPCl8a by Nero@chaos.social
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       @alina the BIOS boot works using the same interrupt routines that the original IBM PC used, its based on CHS-based addressing (sectors and tracks for floppies and such) and the hard disk mode was hacked on top of that
       
 (DIR) Post #B5f0XmHWU0A2BX64OW by laalsaas@c3d2.social
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       @alina ... or as the bios of my old dell laptop used to call it: "Diskette Drive"