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>EFI is not exclusive to Macs. Which is beside the pedantic point, that to be an "IBM PC compatible" you have to NOT run EFI.
by batista 14y ago
>EFI is not exclusive to Macs.
Which is beside the pedantic point, that to be an "IBM PC compatible" you have to NOT run EFI.
- paulmcpazzi 14y agoNot if your (U)EFI firmware is capable of booting BIOS-booted operating systems as well as (U)EFI operating systems (like IBM System x Server Firmware).
- slurgfest 14y agoAnd yet the PC clone market as a whole appears to be moving over to EFI
- batista 14y agoSo they appear to be moving over to "not being IBM PC compatible". Which is perfectly valid. I never said that PCs are called PCs because they ARE IBM PC compatible, only said they are called PCs because in the past "IBM PC compatible" defined their category.