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Bios? old pc user?
Authored by: Egrefen on Dec 06, '05 09:24:23AM

Sheesh. I'm slightly tired of mr. Know-it-alls hammering this line.

Let's see what Open Firmware does:
Interfaces components of the computer with one another, and the user.
Boots everything.
Basically handles Basic Input and Output, as a System.

Why, you might as well make an acronym out of that. Something like... BIOS! That's right, it's the same fsckinging thing. In fact, another word for BIOS is, as you'd expect it, "firmware".

Same
Fscking
Thing.

Sheesh, some morons...



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Bios? old pc user?
Authored by: bailey_ca on Dec 06, '05 08:58:20PM

That's it! If you kids don't stop arguing, I will turn this iMac around. We will go right back to PPCland, and you will NOT get to see IntelWorld. Do you want that?!

Stop the fussing. Mr. Know-it-all is just arguing semantics. OpenFirmware is indeed a BIOS by definition.

However, in popular language, OpenFirmware is the Mac BIOS, and "BIOS" is the PC screen you can only get to by hitting Del at startup. Or F1. Or Enter. Or whatever the manufacturer chooses.

Now sit down. We've got another seven hours until we get to the hotel, and I am NOT stopping at another rest area!



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Bios? old pc user?
Authored by: ghay on Dec 07, '05 05:02:59AM

Just going by the definition of firmware in the wikipedia!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware

but hey - you obv. know better than the thousands of authors of the wikepedia.

signed

mr. know-nothing



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