RE: [OpenBIOS] New power-up graphics BIOS.

[Gavin R. Brewer]

Guys & Gals,

I have just printed the USENIX conference notes on LinuxBIOS, and skimming
through it, I am impressed with what I see.

It would be a really good idea if a group of us were to write a new BIOS,
(Mac-style), which was very similar to LinuxBIOS, but links in with Darwin
(the MacOS-X Kernel).

If we can pull this one off, it will be a serious blow to Micro$oft. Some of
the guys in Apple will love us, since we will have finally put the last
stake into the heart of closed proprietory systems...

Let's do it folks.

All the best,
    		Gavin.

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New power-up graphics BIOS.

[zechmer]

Hello again Garvin,
> If we can pull this one off, it will be a serious blow to Micro$oft. Some

of
> the guys in Apple will love us, since we will have finally put the last
> stake into the heart of closed proprietory systems...

Although shouldn't the BIOS have the necessary functions for a Win bootup?
[please don't harm me for this consideration ;-) ].
Bye

Bernhard

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New power-up graphics BIOS.

[Gavin Robert Brewer]

> Although shouldn't the BIOS have the necessary functions for a Win bootup?
> [please don't harm me for this consideration ;-) ].

Grrr...All right then. But I would much rather see it emulated
'within-a-window' rather than at BIOS.  I'll think on it, buddy. d:-)

Namaste,
    	Gav.

New power-up graphics BIOS.

[Gavin Robert Brewer]

> Although shouldn't the BIOS have the necessary functions for a Win bootup?
> [please don't harm me for this consideration ;-) ].

Looks like I misunderstood you there d:-(

By Win do you mean Win-doze? No offence buddy. Actually I have been
thinking about it, and it looks to be a rather good idea. We could boot
to Win-doze in effect, but not in reality.

Instead, we could boot to a Mac-style GUI. WOO-HOO!

Namaste,
    Gavin (now Founder of Zensufi Philosophy).

PS. Please call me Gavin; Garvin sounds cool, but it aint right somehow
<|;-)
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[zechmer]

Hello Gavin,

sorry for the "name interchange".
Bye.

Bernhard

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Eric

[zechmer]

Hello Gavin,

I'm downloading Eric right now.
Later more...

Bye

Bernhard

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[Ronald G Minnich]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, zechmer wrote:
> Although shouldn't the BIOS have the necessary functions for a Win bootup?
> [please don't harm me for this consideration ;-) ].

bootup is easy. You have to support the INT functions that microsoft uses.
That would be cool if you did that.

ron

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New power-up graphics BIOS.

[Alan Grimes]

You would REALLY like to modernize the BIOS API... 
It shouldn't be TOO hard to produce an updated IO.SYS/IBMBIO.SYS but
then you have to worry about how drivers interract with the BIOS, and
non-standard chipset configs...