Bios

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Bios or BIOS may refer to:

Computing

• BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), a de facto standard firmware interface of IBM PC compatible computers
  • Award BIOS, manufactured by Award Software
  • Phoenix BIOS, manufactured by Phoenix Technologies
  • AMI BIOS, manufactured by American Megatrends
• BIOS (CP/M), the BIOS in the CP/M family of operating systems
• DOS-BIOS, the equivalent of the CP/M component in some DOS operating systems, IBMBIO.COM in PC DOS
  • IO.SYS, in MS-DOS

Organisations

• Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
• Biological Innovation for Open Society
• BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom
• British Institute of Organ Studies

Media and entertainment

• Bios (album), the third album by Costa Rican music group Gandhi
• BIOS Faction, in the Allegiance video game
• BIOS, the society journal of the Tri Beta society

Other uses

• Biographies or bios
• Bios (philosophy), a philosophical concept of Giorgio Agamben

See also

• NetBIOS
• BIOS-3, a closed ecosystem at the Institute of Biophysics in Krasnoyarsk, Russia
• Bio (disambiguation)
• ROS (disambiguation)