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.
