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Phoenix Sounds Death Knell for BIOS

Posted by michael on from the pay-attention dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The sky will fall next.... Betanews is carrying a story about Phoenix ditching the trusty old BIOS and moving to 'Trusted Computing'... ya right... Time to stock up on those old motherboards boys!" A follow-up/analysis on this story.

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  1. Re:Or, buy a Mac... by UltraSkuzzi · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's the problem, there won't really be any alternative, AMI has jumped on board too. Phoenix IS Award so there goes another competitior. The only ones left will be the big giant OEMs, like Compaq, and IBM who last I checked, still made their own BIOS.

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  2. OpenBIOS by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is also OpenBIOS, an open source 'BIOS' based on OpenFirmware. OpenFirmware is the solution used on Sun, IBM and Apple based machines. OpenFirmware uses a forth interpreter and also presents the hardware as a device tree.

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  3. Phoenix PR addy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    megan@Outcastpr.com

    Interestingly they outsource their PR.

    Above is the address of Megan Kurtz who is their public relations person. Get mailing now :)