With UEFI we see one of the most important and at the same time most underrated changes the computer industry has seen within the past years. UEFI is replacing the good old BIOS these days and it sets the standard for a whole lot of future developments.

It hasn't been a long time ago that the BIOS used to be the oldest part of any PC that was sold. More than 30 years ago the the Basic Input/Output System made it's way into the computer world. And it lasted for an astonishingly long time. With it's 1'024 Kilobyte of execution space it has even benn able to succeed in a time where Gigabytes and Terabytes are being transferred.

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