Tagged: Desktop computer

BBC News – Change to ‘Bios’ will make for PCs that boot in seconds (via The Land, The Sea and Space)

Darkfreak's Desktop
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This would be a nice change. People hate rebooting.

New PCs could start in just seconds, thanks to an update to one of the oldest parts of desktop computers. The upgrade will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start-up software known as Bios that initialises a machine so its operating system can get going. The code was not intended to live nearly this long, and adapting it to modern PCs is one reason they take as long as they do to warm up. Bios’ replacement, known as UEFI, will predominate in n … Read More

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Whatever happened to… Microsoft Bob (via a plan conceived in the mind)

The logo of Microsoft Bob.
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I only used Bob once and that was on a Gateway that I bought from Walmart. It was super cheap and when I assembled it at home it didn’t work right. I took it back to Walmart and was disappointed in the entire process. I never bought a computer at Walmart after that. People had said they enjoyed the computer they had bought. I guess I wasn’t the “Bob” type.

Released in March 1995, Microsoft Bob was designed as a nontechnical interface for desktop computing. It was also one of Microsoft‘s more notable failures. This is from Wikipedia: The main interface is portrayed as the inside of a house, with different rooms to correspond to common real-world room styles such as kitchen and family … Read More

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