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Eh its a little different. Your analogy would be more correct if we kept adding to the BIOS interface till it got large, rather than starting from scratch.
by ramenmeal 9y ago
Eh its a little different. Your analogy would be more correct if we kept adding to the BIOS interface till it got large, rather than starting from scratch.
- JdeBP 9y agoActually, that is what happened in the years before EFI. The API for old style PC/AT and PC98 firmware is a patchwork mess of oftentimes-conflicting subsystems that grew over the years.