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Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear

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On 24/11/2017 7:20 AM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> keithr0 <user@account.invalid> wrote:
>> By 2020
>>
>> https://tinyurl.com/yad4bcj2
> 
> Shame that they couldn't find an equal acronym. Even BIOSAdvanced
> or BIOSA would have at least been more memorable than UEFI, though
> getting it back down to two syllables would have been even better.
> 
> It's a shame that they're going to end the excellent run of
> backwards compatibility that x86(_64) has had, but it is hard
> to think of a good argument why they should keep spending money
> on writing software to make it so.
> 
That's pretty much it. Still want to run old software? Run a virtual 
machine.

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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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