Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 3.2
The familiar Windows interface used to provide a graphical
display of the files produced in the PICO directory of the C: drive
Figure 3.3
The contents of the same directory as shown in Figure 3.2 but
displayed using the DOS CLI
software known as a
device driver
. A number of device drivers (e.g. those
which deal with the standard serial and parallel ports) are resident within the
BIOS ROM. Others which may be required must be loaded into RAM during
system initialization.
