On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:04:21PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I'm all for ditching the BIOS as it stands maybe moving to something like http://www.openfirmware.org/, if it works for Apple and Sun then why not.
But the thought of a platforms firmware being designed by that platforms most aggressive software developer is something that fills me with dread.
Aye, I agree, but then at worst all the Linux peeps will end up buying Macs or Sparc boxen to run Linux on :) Also I don't think that the Chinese (or India) will be to happy about this so I figure that they will develop down their own route. Anyhow I figure it is about time to kill off the PC architecture though, it does truely suck at pretty much everything but has the advantage of being cheap bang for buck right now.
Adam