BIOS on the way out: Coalition

摘要

San Francisco - A coalition of some of the largest hardware and software companies in the world will launch a new specification by the end of this year to rid the industry of the legacy Basic Input-Output System that resides in PCs everywhere. An executive told Intel's Developer Forum in August that the formation in July of a forum to manage the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) could mean an end to the BIOS, which was introduced by IBM with its first PC in 1981.