Intro To Intel's Next-Gen BIOS Architecture

An anonymous reader writes "This article introduces the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), which is intended to provide an alternative to BIOS that will allow for faster booting, manageability, and additional features. According to the author, there has been rapid evolution of the personal computer platform since the 1980s. These advances have included order-of-magnitude increases in performance, ease-of-use, storage capacity, and connectivity. But there is one element of the PC that has not changed for the past 23 years -- namely, the BIOS (basic input/output system)."

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Re:Why is that bad?

[zulux]

If you're going to get rid of it then at least adopt Openboot firmware like Macs and Suns have.

The fun thing about Openboot is that it's in Forth:

On the Openboot prompt you can do this:

$ 42 69 + .

and it will spit out

$ 111