does not imply the manufacturers or even the creators of the generic BIOS know the BIOS code very good. BIOS code developed in same way as Windows:
...and DOS
keep compatibility and attach some really ugly extensions and work-arounds.
Indeed, the source code of Award BIOS is an awful mess of patches and jumps, hundreds of files and strange building scheme, with comments in "Chinese English" ;-)
"The Windows price is in fact included on every computer we buy"
Not because it's bundled with every compulter but because its price is included in the... CPU! Indeed, Intel and Microsoft are like "bottom and pants" as we say here (hmm... what about AMD?)
they can boot Win2000 with it, using Bochs components. http://www.linuxbios.org/news/index.html#NT
Thanx, the second link from your link is very interesting. So LinuxBIOS + BochsBIOS = RealBIOS!
thus, it's a BIOS replacement for 32bit operating systems. (DOS won't run I guess, or OS/2)
They promise to be able to boot even Windows 98 (this means, DOS too) soon...
May we live to see what happens in the BIOS field other than the "trusted computing" nightmare.
Lucho
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