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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: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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