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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."

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  1. frfc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first reply from class. woot. hooray for night classes!

    1. Re:frfc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You shouldn't eat your own poop you know...

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

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

  3. GOOD!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Finally someone uses the apostrophy (sp?) correctly!!!

    When you talk about the object of a word that ends in s, you put the ' and nothing else!!

    no Bios's or anything like that!

    Nice job Ninga Master!

  4. ha ha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mod parent up! LOL!!!!

  5. Re:but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ./ full of morons lately? We'll anyways... In SOVIET RUSSIA Windows boots bios!

  6. Son of Tsarkon retorts: Re: in Soviet RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nicely put.

  7. 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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  8. eating cock is hard to do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or is it: eating hard cock is to do

  9. Re:but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't know about dotslash but you are the proof the authorities need!

    YOU ARE THE MUPPET CORRUPTOR!

  10. Duh, Apple of course.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't forget the largest UNIX vendor is Apple....

  11. Re:Why not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    IE6 users, try typing about:Mozilla in the address bar

    Someone doesn't like the lizard

    BSOD? Must be some sort of interal MS recursive joke.

  12. 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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  13. Re:Why not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe late but http://www.mozilla.org/

  14. Re:Why not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The IE bluescreen joke predates mozilla.org by a long shot.