death of our bios

[Herrline]

just read this snippet in an email from firing squad just take a look!

* The death of BIOS
On news.coms

The pair will establish a forum to promote the specification as a standard. If EFI-based software is accepted broadly, it could prompt the first changing of the guard in preboot software in the history of the PC industry--even though some critics say the transition may take a while or may not happen at all.
Right now, the task of getting a PC's hardware ready to accept the operating system is handled by software called BIOS, or basic input/output system. While the BIOS was once relatively straightforward in its design, over the years it has morphed into a figurative bowl of spaghetti as it's been changed and updated to accept new technologies.

Advocates say EFI would make it simpler for companies to add improvements, while also enabling PCs to boot up faster.

*sniff* I'll miss my beeps.

[The Shiznit]

I remember the days when you had to manually setup the hard disk cylinder and head values in the BIOS - I still use my 20 meg drive... it stops the paper blowing off my desk.

[Red Plague]

Anyone remember a "Winchester"???? Its the old name for a harddisk.

I am only 23 but I have been working with PC's for donkey's.

[STRETCH]

i too rememeber the good ol days
286 20 meg hd 4 meg ram ega colour flying machine
£800
LOL

[GoldRush]

my first computer was an comadore 64 after that a 128
then i went in the army and bought myself a nice 286 machine
jeeeeeeeeeeeez am i that old

[JonnyThunder]

My first PC was a Vic20 (before Commodore 64!). It was a mean machine!

If they ditch the standard Bios, it'll open up for all kinds of new virus I think. That'll be nice.

|lame|

[Herrline]

my first computer was the amiga 500 then the amiga 1200 of which i still have and was getting good at the operating system and into programming then they stopped the mags and support for it so its in bits down at my daughters as the 20 meg two and a half inch hard disk went down and i lost interest in it i still have thousands of game for it on floppy + four floppy external disk drives and 14k modem, printer and 15inch phillips coulor moniter.......i am going to use the moniter and printer on the computer im building for my grandaughter if i can get it going when i up grade tthis one im using now, i got the bits but am too afraid to do it yet? |puter| |angel|

[Herrline]

http://news.com.com/2100-7337_3-5131787.html?tag=nefd_lede

just for your perusal this is the link to get you the full news on the bios bit |friends|

[Wraith]

First Computer was a ZX81 (still got it*)- then went the Vic20, Commodor64*, Amiga500* route... did get a Sinclair Quantum Leap - but it was a bit naff (loading code into it's 64 bit CPU in 8 bit chunks before executing it.. lol - wot woz the point?) - then of course converting back to 8bit afterwards for memory storage.

My first "real" PC after an Olivetti M280 was a 486DX-33 and it was the Dogs' nadges at the time.. It's case is still in use today...

/sniff/ Happy days : )

[Jodo]

My first computer was a Toshiba HX10 MSX, it was the first machine to use Sound chips in its cartridge games which Nintendo and everyone after copied into their cartridge games. The other games that came out were cassette games and were coded exactly like Spectrum games even though the machine was capable of far more. Brilliant machine, had a lot of support off Konami in the early days until they sold out to the Nintendo bandwagon.

[Hunter]

Also, the Oparating System of the MSX was written by good ol' microsoft, back then they actually managed to write an OS without including a whole hoard of bugs

[Herrline]

microsoft got too complicated and thats when the bugs arrived and stayed |crying|