* Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> [060407 16:38]: > >>"Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to > >>handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are > >>stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the > >>Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries." > > I read that too. Pretty funny, once you start looking at EFI code ...
The really ultra-modern innovative part - and the only one that was not coped by IEEE 1275-1994 (yeah last century) - was the intellectual property closed source thingie. The good thing is nobody except Intel and Apple are supporting EFI actively yet. Stefan -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
