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Why Intel Wants BIOS Dead
An anonymous reader writes "This brief, readable whitepaper by Brian Richardson, a product manager at BIOS-vendor AMI, examines the history of BIOS firmware and explains why chipmaker Intel has invested much time and effort to create and promote a firmware framework to replace BIOS. Why would a chip company care about firmware? Read Richardson's paper about the 'Evolution of BIOS: EFI, the Framework, and beyond' to find out."
Go forth and programmeth the BIOS.
That's all I had to say. I'm done now.
??? Son. I ported CP/M 68K (yuk isn't the word) :
/. moderators have no taste. But I have
When I was doing it
Mince (if you don't know Mark of the Unicorn's
excellent EMACS clone then you would have killed
for it when I was losing my sight in front of a
TeleVideo TV925 (still working until 2000)
Yeah. It is basic input output system. But that was
too much for many developers (coughs and giggles).
The "adaptable p-system" for the UCSD p-system
made it even more simple. You still needed brains
to do an SBIOS port - especially if the hardware
was (as it was as a rule) flakey. I won't bore you
with the details, but a very successful ISP in the
North of England (who like me is a chemist) could
relate tales which would make you curl up into
the mandatory fetal position...).
Wintel deserves to die. Believe me. I really don't
want this low grade crud corrupting future generations of programmers. It doesn't work. Nothing will make it work. When we finally get to understand that the letter "A" is a given then I'll be able to write words. Or even sentences.
I started my life as a scientist and I plan to die
as one - even if I spent the middle bit masturbating in the software industry!
Oh, and I was *hand* punching punch cards back in
74 or maybe 73. One mistake and that syntax error
on line 320 bit you three weeks later.
I'm still learning about sucking eggs though...
I know the
a good one (of course). So, Never give up hope- you'd be surpised what get's marked up as insightful.. (very big grin).
Oh, puleeze. That's more bogus (boguser?) than a Dan Rather news report.
Do you even know what BIOSs did on CP/M systems?
18 years ago, in 1976.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1