Comments on: Intel's Barrett knows PCs inside and out

The PC market saved Intel from becoming a technology industry footnote in the mid-1980s, and it hasn't looked back.

[orfeu_niko]

No Apple fanboys?

Saying how the PC indutry reacted in reality to the "inovations" from Apple?!
Anyway, it is amaizing what the PC has become. When I was in highschool, we had Norton commander and it was cool. Now we have just about everything and I take it for granted :). I think it is called progress. I kind of regret the fact that the PC has become o multimedia hub, because of the DRM ideea that was brougt on it. The beauty of the PC is it's open nature.

[katamari]

Open nature? Look at your BIOS...

I love reading all of these "PC has existed for 25 years!!!" articles, but not a single one -- including those from Intel -- have touched based on the one true thing that is keeping PCs from becoming more innovative and more capable:

The PC BIOS.

Intel has publicly admitted with EFI that the PC BIOS is literally fuelled off of 25 year-old technology and needs to be revamped.

Additionally, BIOSes are considered to contain "industry secrets" and are not to be reverse-engineered in any way. You can ask Award, AMI, Dell, Gateway, Sony, etc... they'll all claim DMCA or other such nonsense to ensure that PCs continue to remain stagnant.

Yes, because INT 13h is the way of the future. That's right. 256 byte MBR is the way of the future. Booting a PC in real mode is the future.

Right.

[miya kim]

well

well....