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BIOS' Days Are Numbered
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."
No more bios? Might as well cancel my cable, Biography was one of the only good shoes on A&E.
Trolling is a art,
If we can't get rid of other widely spread things like the TCP/IP protocol, what makes you think we can get rid of BIOS?
Goodbye floppy drive.
You are an all new spelling for moron...
Well the Bios almost outlived the floppy ;).
There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
I mean, even my 1992 Toyota uses EFI . Way to keep up with the times, Intel!
Karma: Incomprehensible (Mostly affected by posting at +5, reading at -1, and metamoderating everything unfair.)
If I wanted glorified startup screens I'd boot up my AIX RS/6000 thank you very much.
ah? why? rs/6000 plays Thus Speak Zarathustra at startup?
Because jpg pr0n looks better than ascii pr0n?
*I used to think ppl that got giddy on ascii pr0n back in the bbs days were *WEIRD*
I just can't wait! I'm sure that a high resolution splash screen instead of real information about the progress of the self test will boost my productivity, and reduce the total cost of ownership tremendously!
This indicates just how desperate the industry is to keep the market from saturating.
Do you drive through canyons with your folks on vacations and pretend you're flying in the canyons of the death star?
Yeah, and I wear my Darth Vader helmet over my acne-pocked face, and rasp out threats in an impossibly high-pitched "James Earl Jones" voice.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
My first thought was GRUB....and after seeing the screenshots... I think, ok "WinGRUB". ;)
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Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
Bios days are in binary...
All days are numbered, but bios is done in binary.
(It's a vague attempt a humour... laugh.)
~ kjrose
I tried to make sense of this sentence but my internal parser core dumped. Luckily my newly installed Phoenix Core Management Environment diagnosed the problem as a gramatically challenged sentence.
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
Does Phoenix will have (forced to?) have the paladium's required functions?
I see from this sentence that you're an avid follower of Douglas Adams' verb conjugations based on time travel. However, I believe that you should replace "will have" with "willen on-haven." That should make things much clearer for all of us.
kthxbye.
3 second Linux-rom boots on PCs by replacing the BIOS ROM ... I can't seem to find them via google, though
Have you tried just putting Linux and BIOS into a Google query? First two results: The LinuxBIOS Home Page and Slashdot | Linux BIOS.
Will I retire or break 10K?
I can see it now...
Virus Warning (Y/N)
Memory Hole at 15MB? (Y/N)
pr0n on boot? (Y/N)
POST complete:
"shields up, captain!"
video card probs:
"OMG! somebody help me, i'm blind!"
memory probs:
"hey, who are you? can't remember anything, boy!"
boot disk failure:
"hey! don't put floppy things into me! or at least check the hard ones!"
just an idea...
the computer is online
i am not at it
what a waste of ressources