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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds The upgrade will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start-up software known as Bios that initialises a machine so its operating system can get going. The code was not intended to live nearly this long, and adapting it to modern PCs is one reason they take as long as they do to warm up. Bios' replacement, known as UEFI, will predominate in new PCs by 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069
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| for a long time, MACs were not considered PCs
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| Intel is making EFI boards already. I do think BIOS will not last too long any more. |
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