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Offline Pugnate

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Bios is finally obsolete.
« on: Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 07:51:27 AM »

Offline Cobra951

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Re: Bios is finally obsolete.
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 07:57:43 AM »
Will this also mean the end of those ridiculous batteries on motherboards?  How long has flash RAM been dirt-cheap now?

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Re: Bios is finally obsolete.
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 08:56:07 AM »
haha yea I've had to do a crazy bios reboot by messing with those batteries once or twice on older systems.


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Re: Bios is finally obsolete.
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 09:19:17 AM »
Huh, thats pretty wild.

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Re: Bios is finally obsolete.
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 10:48:07 AM »
Awesome news! It is about time, really :D

Offline ren

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Re: Bios is finally obsolete.
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 11:17:42 AM »
Interesting. This is a section of computing that I've never given any thought before.

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Re: Bios is finally obsolete.
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 11:21:24 AM »
Very interesting.