BIOS going down the pan - at last!!

[FarFarAway]

Well looks as though the big players are gonna finally revise BIOS to something better that supports at least 32bit and might actually speed up Windows.

About damn time!!

In the past, these companies gave presentations projecting phenomenally revolutionary future applications, such as on-board firmware with autonomic, or "self-healing," functionality, or even ideas vastly more fantastic, plucked from science fiction - such as making Windows faster. Their objective has been to intensify public interest in an initiative whose ulterior motive was to unseat the BIOS chip. But after two decades of trying, these companies realized it hasn't worked. So what they intend to do now is coalesce toward achieving the single task that will advance their individual, unique goals

http://www.tomshardware.com/business/20050524/index.html

 

[Joe]

they have been doin that for years glad to see they finaly gettin round to it ; only prob i can see is glithes occuring related to the nu firmwares and harder for BIOS hackers to manipulate it