Comment by userbinator

Text-only BIOS setup was the norm for a long time before the stupidly bloated EFI graphical stuff became common. Even then, there were the better full-featured TUIs:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Award_BI...

https://liveusb.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/awardbios-firstb...

And the simplified crap with tabs that often came with prebuilt PCs but later seems to have spread to others too:

https://cdn.staticneo.com/a/Intel_Sandy_Bridge_Z68_P67/S%20B...