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sir pball

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8. You write Forth, you must have used OpenFirmware.

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 12:40 PM

Mar 2013

IMO going away from OF for the Intel Macs was one of the more boneheaded things Apple did* - OF was elegant, sophisticated, and powerful. Did everything UEFI attempts to (except for the whole "security" bullshit) and more, just better and leaner.

* - I get why they went to UEFI, so as to be able to use more commodity hardware, but they already had the custom manufacturing chain in place...couldn't have been that hard to just swap the processors and custom chipset.

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Can anybody explain why people like UEFI? [View all] Recursion Mar 2013 OP

i don't know if i *like* uefi but as a mac user.. Phillip McCleod Mar 2013 #1

Pre-Intel Macs' firmware utterly spanked UEFI sir pball Mar 2013 #11

It gets us past 1980 boot technology? Warren Stupidity Mar 2013 #2

What was lacking about 1980 boot technology? (nt) Recursion Mar 2013 #3

If you've ever dealt with bios code you wouldn't ask that question. Warren Stupidity Mar 2013 #4

I write Forth code, sometimes for boot sectors Recursion Mar 2013 #5

You write Forth, you must have used OpenFirmware. sir pball Mar 2013 #8

I love OF Recursion Mar 2013 #9

I'll give UEFI a teensy bit of credit for at least trying sir pball Mar 2013 #10

Damfino. hobbit709 Mar 2013 #6

I think we know why Microsoft likes it (nt) pokerfan Mar 2013 #7

UEFI and Secure Boot are not the same thing toddaa Mar 2013 #12

If it's in the UEFi then as far as I'm concerned it's part of it. hobbit709 Mar 2013 #13

Lenovo's implementation of UEFI is the problem toddaa Mar 2013 #14