document: Abacus , EFI and anti-virus The Extensible Firmware Interface -LRB- EFI -RRB- standard emerged as a logical step to provide flexibility and extensibility to boot sequence processes , enabling the complete abstraction of a system 's BIOS interface from the system 's hardware . In doing so , this provided the means of standardizing a boot-up sequence , extending device drivers and boot time applications ' portability to non PC-AT-based architectures , including embedded systems like Internet appliances , TV Internet set-top boxes and 64-bit Itanium platforms
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extractive_keyphrases: embedded systems
abstractive_keyphrases: extensible firmware interface standard anti-virus