[COFF] [TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs

[Dave Horsfall]

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