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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. "Yea right" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    English professor:

    In English, for example, a double negative makes a positive. In other languages such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. There are, however, no languages in which a double positive makes a negative.

    Student in back of class: "Yea right"

  2. Re:Trust Me. by jafac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, and by the way - HALO is finally available on the Mac - after a 3+ year delay (thanks again Microsoft, for buying Bungie!).

    --

    These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
  3. Huh? by vsprintf · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Phoenix is not alone in moving toward such changes. Chip giant Intel has pushed for a predecessor to BIOS it calls the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface).

    How does one push for a "predecessor" to something? Is that like back to the future? It makes me wonder about the rest of the article.