But seriously, if there arn't true graphic bioses now there will be soon..
Compaq is already putting the bios on a hdd partition..
On 26 Mar 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <199803260358.WAA16198@jupiter.cs.uml.edu>
> By author: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > >
> > > Sorry, I don't buy it. The BIOS requires textmode to boot and
> > > run setup.
> >
> > That is _your_ BIOS. In case you haven't noticed, some BIOS setup
> > programs already run in graphics mode, with a mouse even. That's
> > not even counting Compaq, with BIOS setup done through Windows.
> >
>
> Actually, it is "fake" graphics mode -- it's a technique called
> character tiling. It's a stupid idea, too.
>
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