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Blurring The Line Between BIOS And OS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the daddy-what-were-hard-drives dept.

Jon Kincade writes "The Register has an article about Phoenix Technologies cME software that allows users on anything from servers to embedded systems to run diagnostics, browse the web and other things without having to boot into a full fledged OS. The primary use seems to be recovery from system crashes. Also, this may explain why the Phoenix browser was asked to change its name a few months ago."

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  1. Finally! by creative_name · · Score: 3, Funny

    Command line browsing at it's best!

    Look out ASCII porn here come the BIOSonly users of the world ;-)

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  2. Re:Bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    But I thought BIOS stood for "Built-In Operating System". And everyone knows the web browser is a fundamental component of any OS, built-in or otherwise. I'd almost go so far as to say the two should be tied together.

  3. Re:Microsoft. by The+Bungi · · Score: 2, Funny

    But perhaps you can still log into Slashdot and engage in some karma whoring.

  4. In other news by worst_name_ever · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news, Microsoft today announced the availability of Bios XP Service Pack 3, available as a 900MB download from www.microsoft.com or on two handy CD's for only $19.95 plus shipping and handling.

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  5. Re:Microsoft. by Pharmboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    So Windows crashes, and you can't get it to come back up. No problem! You just boot up into your BIOS, send the built-in web-browser to support.microsoft.com, and then your set.

    Dammit! And I'm using the new BORK edition BIOS....

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  6. Simple? by kentyman · · Score: 2, Funny
    If this bios can come with...a simple text file editor

    Not even Emacs comes with one of those. ;)

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  7. Re:BIOS and its definition by (H)elix1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Therefore, it should no longer be called BIOS (Basic IOS)
    Call it Embedded Operating System (EmbOS).

    Or EmacsOS... It seems it can do most everything else, why not the BIOS too?

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