Hi all, A bit of an off topic question , mainly aimed at those who, shall we say, been there and done that.
It is very common to find webpages stating that the BIOS that is in a PC is a mess with respect to the way things boot, device discovery etc. Looking back through the fog of time, would anyone like to point me at something that gets a computer from a not running state to a running state and, in their opinion, does it the "right" way, in an elegant, extensible way. This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading, wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations, Alpha's SPARCs etc etc booted up. Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew