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"We see the point now where the legacy BIOS is finally unable to meet the needs of future operating systems and hardware-based platforms," proclaims Richard Brunner, one of AMD's lead developers of AMD64 architecture. "Legacy BIOS, we think, has persisted for as long as it has due to the prevalence of certain classes of legacy devices. Also, quite honestly, inertia in both the operating system and the BIOS vendors, [along with] the problem that there was not, until recently, any sort of viable alternative with enough industry players behind it. So we think now we've finally reached the point where the most difficult legacy I/O devices are starting to disappear."
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