Adopter membership in UEFI is complimentary, it does not cost $2500/year as I
had thought before.
This means that FreeDOS could have support for UEFI.
http://www.uefi.org/join/
what is UEFI? UEFI+GPT is replacing BIOS+MBR with motherboard manufacturers.
it uses a GPT table instead of the MBR.
The last spec I read, MBR is only kept around as a token gesture for programs
that expect one.
http://www.uefi.org/home/
http://www.uefi.org/specs/
hard disk manufacturers are already coming out with hard disks with large
sectors, which BIOS does not handle (they are hard-coded to 512-byte sectors).
I just unknowingly bought a 750GB laptop drive that had 4096-byte sectors -
until I ran my disk geometry program (I was beginning to suspect, when no disk
upgrade program would work...).
UEFI handles large-sectored hard disks.
I have seen a couple of motherboards already on the market which have UEFI.
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/#/?sk=Socket%201155%20%28Intel%20i3/i5/i7%29
any of these 1155 z68 socket motherboards.
http://www.uefi.org/news/uefi_industry/UEFIEvaluationPlatforms_2010.pdf
(motherboards/systems which have it)
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http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com
http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software)
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Computer memory/disk size measurements:
[KB KiB] [MB MiB] [GB GiB] [TB TiB]
[10^3B=1,000B=1KB][2^10B=1,024B=1KiB]
[10^6B=1,000,000B=1MB][2^20B=1,048,576B=1MiB]
[10^9B=1,000,000,000B=1GB][2^30B=1,073,741,824B=1GiB]
[10^12B=1,000,000,000,000B=1TB][2^40B=1,099,511,627,776B=1TiB]
Note: disk size is measured in MB, GB, or TB, not in MiB, GiB, or TiB.
computer memory (RAM) is measured in MiB and GiB.
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