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by batista 5105 days ago
>EFI is not exclusive to Macs.

Which is beside the pedantic point, that to be an "IBM PC compatible" you have to NOT run EFI.
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paulmcpazzi 5105 days ago
Not if your (U)EFI firmware is capable of booting BIOS-booted operating systems as well as (U)EFI operating systems (like IBM System x Server Firmware).
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slurgfest 5105 days ago
And yet the PC clone market as a whole appears to be moving over to EFI
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batista 5104 days ago
So they appear to be moving over to "not being IBM PC compatible". Which is perfectly valid.

I never said that PCs are called PCs because they ARE IBM PC compatible, only said they are called PCs because in the past "IBM PC compatible" defined their category.

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