End of the BIOS
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 22, 2003 at 1:51:24 AM
EFI will replace the BIOS as we know it. Extensible Firmware Interface is written in C, and it'll be easy to add functionality to it. So we are making an OS before the OS comes in, how amazing.
Bitch sessions rock!
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For more than 20 years, the PC has relied on the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), a small set of fixed software routines normally built into a chip on the motherboard. This hangover from a distant past is causing more and more problems, said Mark Doran, Intel's principal engineer behind the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) that aims to humanely kill the antique technology.
"When I started, I got senior managers together from across Intel and asked them what would happen if we had a blank sheet of paper to replace the BIOS," Doran said. "It turned into a three-day bitch session." He said that the original designers of the IBM PC BIOS had no idea that it would survive this long. "They thought that 250,000 machines would see it through to the end of its life," he said.
Bitch sessions rock!