Is ROM a another name for BIOS

[shaharhada]

I saw a lecture and in the lecture, one student say that "The RAM is BIOS". Is the RAM can be something else? Can it be more things?

 

[kanewolf]

I saw a lecture and in the lecture, one student say that "The RAM is BIOS". Is the RAM can be something else? Can it be more things?

RAM is memory that is volatile. Meaning it loses the values stored easily. It could lose data from loss of power or even from just sitting. RAM has to be refreshed to maintain integrity.
ROM is memory that is non-volatile. It doesn't change data over time or from loss of power. Of course, even ROM has to have some way of storing new data. There are multiple types of ROM and the programming methods vary. The most common is EEPROM -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEPROM

BIOS is the SOFTWARE used to initialize a PC. It is stored in ROM.
"The RAM is BIOS" is an inaccurate statement. Maybe you mean "The ROM is BIOS". I addressed that above. BIOS is stored in ROM.

 

[shaharhada]

RAM is memory that is volatile. Meaning it loses the values stored easily. It could lose data from loss of power or even from just sitting. RAM has to be refreshed to maintain integrity.
ROM is memory that is non-volatile. It doesn't change data over time or from loss of power. Of course, even ROM has to have some way of storing new data. There are multiple types of ROM and the programming methods vary. The most common is EEPROM -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEPROM

BIOS is the SOFTWARE used to initialize a PC. It is stored in ROM.
"The RAM is BIOS" is an inaccurate statement. Maybe you mean "The ROM is BIOS". I addressed that above. BIOS is stored in ROM.

Yes, i mean ROM. Is the ROM store more things except BIOS?

 

[kanewolf]

Yes, i mean ROM. Is the ROM store more things except BIOS?

In newer PCs, yes. All the stuff that can be accessed at power up. All the graphics and support for a mouse, even the upgrade utility that allows you to load a new BIOS.
Older PCs, no. Space was limited and the ROM had nothing but the BIOS software.

 

[TerryLaze]

In newer PCs, yes. All the stuff that can be accessed at power up. All the graphics and support for a mouse, even the upgrade utility that allows you to load a new BIOS.
Older PCs, no. Space was limited and the ROM had nothing but the BIOS software.

Not really though.
Bios stands for basic input output system and those bases have changed by a lot, the early PCs didn't even have mice because they where very expensive and they also didn't have GPUs that could actually display graphics most of them only had text mode and lots of early games only had asci graphics so BIOS only had keyboard support and asci graphics because that was what every PC had to support.
Today people expect the mouse to work as input and expect graphics as output, what people expect as basic is what has changed.