Something like that...

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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Maglinger, Paul <pmaglin...@scvl.com>wrote:

>  Like the Y2K issue?
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> *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, October 01, 2010 10:01 AM
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> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...
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> I liked the following:
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> 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.
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>  "They are as amazed as anyone else that now it is still alive and well in
> a lot of systems," he said. "It was never really designed to be extensible
> over time."
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> This is a reminder to each of us that even the most short-term of solutions
> needs to be fairly well thought out, because short-term in theory might not
> be short-term in practice.
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>  On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:59 AM, James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069
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> Probably well overdue, in hindsight
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>

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