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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:No more? by leviramsey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you get DirecTV, you can get the Biography Channel...

  2. Re:No more? by t0ny · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Too bad I have no mod points. I laughed like hell at that one

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  3. Troll feeding by nelsonal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While RPN has been lodged in my brain over the past several years, I have to say that even more useful is the HP graphing series stacks. I can leave stuff up there to check my entry or use it to store several subtotals for later calcs, I'm sure that there are TI's that have stacks, but the HPs was the one that got me first.

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