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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:07:01PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> I remember there being rumors a year or two ago about
> Intel trying to sack legacy BIOS and MBR support on x86 entirely
> and force everyone to use EFI and GPT.

AMD doesn't have this desire, so please don't assume this for the new
AMD64 platform.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)