Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI']

[Jerry Feldman]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:08:16 -0500
"Chip" <chip.programmer at att.net> wrote:

> They have been trying to push that for three years.  Unless all the
> hardware can initialize itself magically, including PCI, AGP, Video,
> USB, keyboards, there will continue to be a need for BIOS.
Or a BIOS equivalent, which EFI is. There are a lot of very outdated
things in BIOS. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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