Bit of CP/M trivia needed

[Brian Knittel]

Hi all,

Does anybody out there know for certain when the 
term BIOS was coined? I believe it was Gary Kildall,
and from what I can find, it was around 1978 that
he abstracted the I/O and localized it in what
he called the BIOS. Anyone know differently?

Also -- was the BIOS stored on the CP/M 
floppy, or was it in ROM/EPROM? If not, how
did CP/M machines boot? Was there a dedicated
boot ROM that was used just for startup, and
then the BIOS took over? I had one back in
the day, but I sure can't remember this detail.

This is for a writing project, so I'd like
to get it right, 

Thanks!
Brian


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