Standard deviations

Abstract

The BIOS of any computer can now offer the built-in bootable CD-ROM support with the El Torito standard. The El Torito Specification, named after the restaurant where the two engineer-developers collaborated, will pave the way for several advantages and imaginative alternatives to booting from a hard drive or floppy disk. For one, it will provide higher security for workstations by offering no local writable storage, thus preventing the spread of viruses and inhibiting unauthorized copying of sensitive data.