Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear

From	keithr0 <user@account.invalid>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Last vestiges of PC BIOS to disappear
Date	2017-11-24 15:55 +1000
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On 11/24/2017 2:38 PM, Xeno wrote:
> 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.
> 
It's not the software it's old hardware that needs it.

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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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