Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (BIOS replacement)

[#1]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069

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Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

Except for the operating system of course  

[#2]

A bit like starting your car quicker, but being unable to get out of your driveway because the bin lorry is there ! 

[#3]

Thats Rubbish Gery

[#4]

so is your spelling Piere. ! ! !   

[#5]

I like winding you up

[#6]

To get back on topic...... this thread is about winding up pc`s and laptops...... not me ! 

[#7]

What's this got to do with Windows anyway?

[#8]

Since Linux boots up so quickly anyway the first comment wouldn't have been applicable 

[#9]

True - my PC sits in BIOS for a several seconds, then waits whilst the disks spin up.
Actual boot is around 8 seconds.
Login is about 5 seconds (to fully operational).

[#10]

The introduction of UEFI to PCs sounds like a good opportunity to ditch the MBR in favour of GPT and have PCs finally catch up with Apple Macs.
(Shouldn't this be in Hardware?)

[#11]

no The BIOS is a piece of software

[#12]

a Bit - hard to understand

[#13]

Quote from: giro

no The BIOS is a piece of software

But not Windows software.
I'm posting this from a MacBook; it has an Intel Extensible Firmware Interface. One might reasonably argue that firmware is also, at least in part, software.
Does this mean that discussion of (U)EFI is better suited to the Mac(/Linux) Software forum?
I would argue not; the relevant software is not MacOS related.
In the context of this thread both BIOS and UEFI are much more closely associated with the system hardware than whatever OS may be installed.

[#14]

Ideally a general computer discussion board would have covered it but as it isn't a physical item but a piece of software or firmware on the motherboard this seemed to be the best of a bad job

[#15]

Well Windows is certainly a bad job.