BIOS Out, UEFI In, Making PCs Boot In Seconds

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BIOS Out, UEFI In, Making PCs Boot In Seconds [bbc.co.uk]

New PCs could start in just seconds, thanks to an update to one of the oldest parts of desktop computers.

The upgrade will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start-up software known as Bios that initialises a machine so its operating system can get going.

The code was not intended to live nearly this long, and adapting it to modern PCs is one reason they take as long as they do to warm up.

Bios' replacement, known as UEFI, will predominate in new PCs by 2011.

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A previous discussion about the replacement of the BIOS by UEFI can be found here [webmasterworld.com]. Personally I doubt it will go that fast that BIOS will be replaced for a large part in 2011. Way to much backward compatibility issues IMO.