Writing an End to the Bio of BIOS?

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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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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-30 02:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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id rather write a pen pal by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-30 02:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic

letter to the goatse guy. he has good penmanshippe
had to do it once by slim+hades · 2003-12-30 02:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

w00 h00 first post... I have to wonder if this is an attempt at making things better for them or us... Now I can get a blue screen before my O/S starts? sweeet.. eliminates any diagnostics
1. 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.
Bios is dying! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-30 03:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Fact: *BIOS is dying

It is common knowledge that *BIOS is dying. Everyone knows that ever hapless *BIOS is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *BIOS is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *BIOS community. The numbers continue to decline for *BIOS but AwardBIOS may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The erosion of user base for AwardBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.

All major marketing surveys show that *BIOS has steadily declined in market share. *BIOS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BIOS is to survive at all it will be among hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes *BIOS is already dead. It is a dead man walking.

Fact: *BIOS is dead.
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.