It's all about names and marketing. The underlying and overall function of the firmware must still be the same. But this is NEW! and You Need It to be on the cutting edge. It wouldn't have the same promotional value had it been called BIOS 2.0 or NGBIOS.
For sure, compatibility is a requirement, as there are plenty of bootable programs that depend on the BIOS interface to hard drives in order to function. Carl From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 8:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh... It's all about standards . either it has to emulate BIOS to interface with existing Operating Systems, or the OS developers have to code future versions to it and drop any backwards hardware capability. ( or bloat the os more with dual capability ??? ) Chicken or the Egg ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh... It will be interesting to see if this version manages to do what EFI didn't. -sc From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 7:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: The end of the BIOS is nigh... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069 Probably well overdue, in hindsight with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
