BetaNews
| Phoenix Sounds Death Knell for BIOS: “Phoenix Technologies is
sounding the death knell for BIOS - the bread and butter of its current
operations. While Phoenix is comparatively the ‘Microsoft’ of the BIOS
world, it has spent years endeavoring to modernize the aging standard.”
The BIOS. For anyone attempting to homebrew an OS, the BIOS
is a major stumbling block (99.9% of all hobby OSes die at this initial
convolution). The new face of the BIOS proposed by Phoenix does not bode
well for system developer wannabes.
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