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  • Re: which distros will automatically setup dual-boot?

    From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Thu Dec 24 23:18:20 2020
    On 12/24/20 12:58 PM, Aragorn wrote:
    On 24.12.2020 at 19:08, Pascal Hambourg scribbled:

    Le 22/12/2020 à 07:10, Aragorn a écrit :

    EFI firmware that was already in
    use on various RISC platforms such as (Ultra)SPARC, MIPS, POWER,
    DEC Alpha, PA-RISC

    Are you sure ?
    AFAIK, SPARC and POWER platforms used Open Firmware, not EFI.

    That may be the case now — the word "now" defined as "possibly for up to
    20 years already" — but I'm pretty certain they were using EFI back in
    the 1990s.

    Aragorn is correct! Scroll down to History in the following URL. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface>

    bliss - even a fool can use DuckDuckGo

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Thu Dec 24 23:19:56 2020
    Sorry this is followup to a message in another newsgroup that got
    misaddressed

    On 12/24/20 3:18 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
    On 12/24/20 12:58 PM, Aragorn wrote:
    On 24.12.2020 at 19:08, Pascal Hambourg scribbled:

    Le 22/12/2020 à 07:10, Aragorn a écrit :

    EFI firmware that was already in
    use on various RISC platforms such as (Ultra)SPARC, MIPS, POWER,
    DEC Alpha, PA-RISC

    Are you sure ?
    AFAIK, SPARC and POWER platforms used Open Firmware, not EFI.

    That may be the case now — the word "now" defined as "possibly for up to >> 20 years already" — but I'm pretty certain they were using EFI back in
    the 1990s.

        Aragorn is correct! Scroll down to History in the following URL. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface>

      bliss - even a fool can use DuckDuckGo



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