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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Intel is removing drivers and BIOS for its old desktop boards so anyone running an old Pentium-based PC has four days to get hold of anything they might need.
The warning on Intel's download center page says:
End Of Life - This download, BIOS Update [RL86510A.86A] P21, will no longer be available after November 22, 2019 and will not be supported with any additional functional, security, or other updates. All versions are provided as is. Intel recommends that users of BIOS Update [RL86510A.86A] P21 uninstall and/or discontinue use as soon as possible.
Opinion on message boards is mixed, with some accepting that a 20-year support cycle is not terrible. But others pointed out that some industries like manufacturing will still be relying on old hardware to run parts of their infrastructure.
Posters on Vogon, a forum dedicated to ancient hardware and emulators that allow you to run old games on newer machines, questioned the move and how much space and storage Intel would really save by the housekeeping measure.
Various people are setting up their own mirrors and using archive.org, but the maker community noted that file names are not always obvious and downloading from mirror sites can be risky.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday November 20 2019, @10:23PM (1 child)
>The question is liability and culpability for backdoors
then they would have not shipped the IME, and the BIOS would be updatable only after setting a physical switch, and no EFI, and no integrated radio circuitry, and the BIOS would be 100% mathematically verified, and would be openfirmware because it is already there, working, and free.
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday November 20 2019, @10:48PM
You confuse liability with perfection. But I can see where to a Bot that things must either be perfect or offline.
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