More Power To The Firmware 226
An anonymous reader writes "In More Power To The Firmware Amit Singh talks about technical details of EFI, the next-gen BIOS replacement standard Intel, Microsoft and others are pushing. This is a very informative piece where he talks of issues with legacy BIOS, how it affects those who develop in the firmware environment and how EFI plans to solve these problems. EFI usage examples are included, including a programming example. He contrasts EFI with Open Firmware as well. IMO the second half of the article is even more interesting, where sample FORTH code is provided for displaying a window/mouse pointer GUI inside the Apple/Mac firmware! And of course, there's code for a new 'Towers of Hanoi' animation using the Mac firmware (remember Hanoimania?). Aspiring Mac Firmware Hackers could also check out the suggested projects ;-)"
Ya, shure (Score:3, Funny)
Re:hm (Score:5, Funny)
Intel versus Planet Earth (Score:5, Funny)
NO ROM BASIC (Score:3, Funny)
Or maybe useful utilities like Sun and other workstation vendors have.
Or maybe more than 15 FUCKING IRQS! Like Macs have.
Is it me, or is everyone else just better all around? The only thing going for PC's is the junk is so cheap.