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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:Goodbye BIOS as well as.. by wwwillem · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The replacement for floppies will probably be USB memory sticks.

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  2. Why not go further ? by dargaud · · Score: 0, Redundant

    After 10 reboots and kernel recompiles today, I wonder if there's ever been research on an OS that would never (re)boot. Obviously part of it needs to be in some permanent memory. Turn the machine off and on and it keeps going from where it was. Updates change parts of it, live, without ever restarting. I wonder about something truly without a 'start'. I mean even embedded devices have a boot.

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