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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