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Writing an End to the Bio of BIOS?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 30, 2003 @02:50AM from the ami-phoenix-award-oh-my dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Intel and Microsoft are gearing up to move toward the first major overhaul of the innermost workings of the personal computer. The companies will begin promoting a technology specification called EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) as a new system for starting up a PC's hardware before its operating system begins loading."

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Re:had to do it once by slim+hades · 2003-12-30 02:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

daamnnn yooouu!.. oh well.. hope the comment was amusing enough for the masses. Seems generic, no?
Just another plus by kalidasa · 2003-12-30 02:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

to using PPC hardware, that is.
And of course by 3lb4rt0 · 2003-12-30 02:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

no one will ever need more than 640kb of memory.
Hopefully since Microsoft is loosing market share. by MrJerryNormandinSir · 2003-12-30 05:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Hopefully Microsoft will start loosing their grasp on the Market and will no longer control the hardware market. I'd love to see Open Standards take over.