[geeks] "Lord SJobs... ARISE" ... Apple has moved to the Dark Side

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:

> EFI has a small bytecoded interpreter that replaces the BIOS
> functions.  Option ROMs on say, a SCSI card, will be replaced by
> smallish programs run in the same bytecoded interpreter.
>
> Skills in assembler will not be required (IIRC something vaguely C-ish
> will be used instead); and the bytecoded interpreter can be run on
> your desktop, so debugging is supposed to be easier.

I can't help but think someone's done that before.  It might even be an
IEEE standard.  Surely if something like this already existed, Intel
wouldn't reinvent the wheel with something that isn't nearly as elegant,
right?

Stupid PC wankers.  Maybe next week they'll invent differential
signalling or SECDED memory-protection logic.  I can't wait until they
invent secondary processors for offloading I/O operations.  That's never
been done before, either.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke    )   "A man who never dreams goes slowly mad."
Elgin, TX           (      --Thomas Dolby, "Valley of the Mind's Eye"