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On 6/22/2010 1:46 PM, Bill Longman wrote: |
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> Because of EFI firmware, that's why mobos would effect it. Like the Sun |
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> Openboot PROM docs say somewhere: "BIOS? We don't need no stinkin' |
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> BIOS". Same with the lame x86 status quo. At least nowadays we could |
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> have two different versions of it on board and it's not a hardware chip |
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> anymore, but, compared to most other intelligent platforms, PC BIOS is |
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> pretty braindead. |
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For the record only Sun servers have ever made me utter, "Let me get |
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this straight. I have to update the firware on the POWER SUPPLY too?!?" |
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E6500s circa '99. |
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