4 Jan
2012
4 Jan
'12
9:05 p.m.
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 01/04/2012 10:55 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
While [U]EFI is standard on Intel Macs, it still doesn't seem to have much
of a foothold. What's going on with Coreboot?
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
ROFL...installed in hundreds of thousands, if
not milliins of
Yes, apparently the $$ was a factor. But the fact that the IEEE blood
money hadn't been paid didn't have any bearing on its deployment. As I said,
I believe even current big Sun machines use it. Certainly the just-previous
generation does. (one twenty feet from me) OpenBoot is hardly unknown. It
just runs in machines that reboot so infrequently that their admins rarely
see it. ;) machines running all over the world. Nearly
all PPC-based Macs, all
Suns (including current ones I think) past the Sun4c family, all
reasonably modern RS6000s, what else...it was an IEEE standard for a
long time, #1275.
My list of IEEE standards says that IEEE 1275-1994 was withdrawn in
1998--5 years. I blinked and missed it, I guess--I was off doing
PeeCee stuff and didn't notice.
Shame, it was a nice idea.