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Why Intel Wants BIOS Dead

Posted by timothy on Friday September 17, 2004 @12:09PM from the because-bios-stole-its-harley dept.

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."

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Re:It's DOS, not BIOS by jrumney · 2004-09-17 22:52 · Score: 3, Interesting

Removing BIOS would break Windows 98, Novell Netware, OS/2. It would also break bootcode in older versions of Linux/NT/BSD/etc.
Who in their right minds is going to buy a new PC and put such an old OS on it? If you need old versions of OS's around for testing, then keep a few old PCs to run them on. There is no point in keeping 16bit boot support around for hysterical raisons.