Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Feb 2007 22:07 UTC, submitted by Floris Lambrechts
More than one million devices have already shipped with LinuxBIOS, and the growth is continuing. In his interview for the upcoming FOSDEM 2007 conference, LinuxBIOS creator Ronald Minnich talks about vendor support, the One Laptop Per Child BIOS, and his reluctance towards EFI.
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2005-07-06
>The 2000+ rating means its comparable to an Intel CPU running at 2GHz.
More precisely, to a P4 running at 2 GHz.
>A pretty pointless rating system actually.
Apparently you don't understand marketing..
People used the clock of a computer as a measure of its performance, so Intel built CPUs with a high clock but not very efficient, AMD not willing to waste power didn't go to the high clock rate and seemed inferior for the customer, so they provided a P4-clock-equivalent performance number, a clever idea.