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Subject: Re: [OSDev] How to switch to long mode in x86 CPUs?
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2025 23:37:15 -0300
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com> writes:
>>"David Brown" <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote in message
>>news:vprtt6$3jah9$1@dont-email.me...
>>> On 27/02/2025 16:57, Ar Rakin wrote:
>>
>
>>Do you consider the concept of a BIOS (as seen as the IBM PC),
>>"legitimate to use" 
>
> In the abstract, possibly.  But the last half century has
> shown that BIOS as an I/O abstraction layer was a bad idea
> from the start.

Would you elaborate or point out an article or book that could clarify
the ideas that have made you to make such remark?  Sounds interesting.