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Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear

From Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au>
Newsgroups aus.computers
Subject Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear
Date 2017-11-24 15:34 +1100
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On 24/11/2017 1:04 AM, felix wrote:
> On 23/11/2017 11:43 PM, Xeno wrote:
>> On 23/11/2017 2:18 PM, keithr0 wrote:
>>> By 2020
>>>
>>> https://tinyurl.com/yad4bcj2
>>
>> Long overdue. My current beast, a 2008 vintage, has UEFI.
>>
> 
> end of an era then :(
> 
That BIOS was a dinosaur and it helped keep Microsoft from advancing 
forward way back when it was necessary and they lagged in an attempt to 
retain backward compatibility. Intel saw the need and advanced apace.


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Xeno

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Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-11-23 13:18 +1000
  Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-11-23 15:55 +1100
  Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-11-23 23:43 +1100
    Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear felix <felix@real_felix.invalid> - 2017-11-24 01:04 +1100
      Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-11-24 15:34 +1100
    Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-11-24 14:26 +1000
      Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear conrrrod@gmail.com - 2017-11-24 16:38 -0800
  Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2017-11-23 20:20 +0000
    Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2017-11-24 15:38 +1100
      Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear keithr0 <user@account.invalid> - 2017-11-24 15:55 +1000

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