Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:06:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote:
> > new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when linux
> > was first written...
> If that is what they taught you in history, Michael, sue the the school.
*sigh*
Let's get some actual numbers in here. From wikipedia:
IBM PC with proprietary BIOS introduced: 1981
Linus Torvalds begins writing Linux: 1991
Intel stops doing EFI and starts contributing to UEFI: 2005
Current year: 2022
Number of years PC BIOS had been around when Linux started: 10
Number of years UEFI has been around now: 17
I don't know how well those two numbers are supposed to indicate that
UEFI "isn't new-fangled", but there they are.
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