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> Kind of like the PC BIOS is still around. Not any more. The BIOS has been replaced with UEFI on most new machines for about a decade now.
by messe 6y ago
> Kind of like the PC BIOS is still around.
Not any more. The BIOS has been replaced with UEFI on most new machines for about a decade now.
- chubot 6y agoYeah that is the thing that runs an entire OS right :) Like Minix or Linux. Still I bet the BIOS will still be around in many places. What about QEMU? Does it present a machine that contains a BIOS? A google search turns this up: http://funwithbits.net/blog/dissecting-the-rom-bios-shipped-with-qemu-for-fun/ http://funwithbits.net/blog/dissecting-the-rom-bios-shipped-... Which means that OSes still have BIOS support. It's not my area of expertise, but it seems like turtles all the way down. BIOS may not have been the best example, but Linux itself or Minix may be a good one. If 100 years from now there's a new dominant OS, there's probably going to still be UEFI with some legacy operating system booting it up ... Or something emulating UEFI, etc.