More Power To The Firmware

Posted by michael on Thursday June 17, 2004 @03:31AM from the press-f2-to-enter-setup dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In More Power To The Firmware Amit Singh talks about technical details of EFI, the next-gen BIOS replacement standard Intel, Microsoft and others are pushing. This is a very informative piece where he talks of issues with legacy BIOS, how it affects those who develop in the firmware environment and how EFI plans to solve these problems. EFI usage examples are included, including a programming example. He contrasts EFI with Open Firmware as well. IMO the second half of the article is even more interesting, where sample FORTH code is provided for displaying a window/mouse pointer GUI inside the Apple/Mac firmware! And of course, there's code for a new 'Towers of Hanoi' animation using the Mac firmware (remember Hanoimania?). Aspiring Mac Firmware Hackers could also check out the suggested projects ;-)"

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Gmail... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-17 03:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...sucks. I want to read my email, not:

"Oops... the system was unable to perform your operation. Please try again in a few seconds."

Please can I read my urgent email Google, please.
HOW DOES THIS BASH MICRO$LOTH OR WORSHIP APPLE? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-17 04:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

in other words, WHO CARES?
Re:Stability? by strictnein · 2004-06-17 04:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Use italics when quoting...

here's an example:
<I>I am a quote</I>
Results in:

I am a quote

Easy, you see?

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