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BIOS' Days Are Numbered

Posted by timothy on from the all-days-are-numbered dept.

Ninja Master Gara writes "While this article shows Phoenix expanding the uses of the bios, ZDNet UK reports Intel is looking to get rid of it altogether, to be replaced with the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) as announced at the Intel Developer Forum. EFI promises a considerable amount of flexibility to system control and startup, legacy support, and programability. And it gets rid of text mode only start up too."

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  1. Re:great... by Grishnakh · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    NIH - Intel doesn't like stuff that other people come up with, unless it's MS

  2. Re:Hardware OS's ? by PurpleFloyd · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    So will we finally be able to embed (part of) our favourite OS into the PC hardware?
    Of course we'll be able to have hardware Windows XP! And better yet, all those Linux-supporting commie bastards are gonna have a lot harder time booting their favorite OS.
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    That's it. I'm no longer part of Team Sanity.