CommanderFrank
Cat Can't Scratch It
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Move over BIOS, there’s a new sheriff in town. Well, technically not new, UEFI has been around for awhile now, but a much wider acceptance by computer manufacturers will begin in 2011. The immediate effect will be a computer that boots in a few seconds, but that is merely the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
"Conventional Bios is up there with some of the physical pieces of the chip set that have been kicking around the PC since 1979," said Mark Doran, head of the UEFI Forum, which is overseeing development of the technology. Mr Doran said the creators of the original Bios only expected it to have a lifetime of about 250,000 machines - a figure that has long been surpassed.