[COFF] [TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Wed Mar 18 08:48:17 AEST 2020
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Clem Cole wrote:
> > Can't say the same for UEFI, I disable that crap.
>
> Well, it beats the crap out of IBM's BIOS, but that bar is very low.
> UEFI was sort of a 'camel' (a horse designed by committee) and too
> many people peed on it. Intel created EFI to try to fix BIOS and then
> people went nuts. Apple's version is the best of them, but as you say,
> they all suck if you have seen anything better. A big problem IMO is
> that EFI tried to be somewhat compatible. In the end, they were not, so
> you got the worst of both (new interfaces and legacy functionality).
The first time I blundered into UEFI was when I tried to boot FreeBSD on a
newish PC, and of course it was not an authorised CD, was it? Or
something like that; anyway, I'm a great believer in allowing idiots to
shoot themselves in the foot if they so desire.
-- Dave
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