Intel to Remove Legacy BIOS Support from UEFI by 2020

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... the POST (power-on self-test) to identify and initialize key system components (CPU, RAM, GPU, storage, DMA controllers, etc.), lead to OS boot and then provide certain I/O functions for older operating systems. Standard PC BIOSes from the 1970s had numerous limitations (a 16-bit processor mode, ...

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