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UEFI is the successor to BIOS on modern machines, and it stands for "Universal Extensible Firmware Interface". Is it also an operating system (it doesn't have "
by cyphar 8y ago
UEFI is the successor to BIOS on modern machines, and it stands for "Universal Extensible Firmware Interface". Is it also an operating system (it doesn't have "system" in the name)?
(I don't disagree with you -- UEFI provides BootServices which arguably are more numerous than the number of syscalls on most operating systems. Just that "system" being in the name isn't really the best argument. :P)
- xxs 8y agoIt was thought to be like that - back in the day when everything used interrupts for syscalls, hence 'system' was mentioned. (Apple II had fixed address calls, though - no interrupts) It's quite the same as DOS being 'disk operating system' - it was able to drive the floppy and provide a file system.