DOS ain't dead

EFI and DOS, DOS on Apple Macintosh (Developers)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 06.11.2007, 01:25

> It depends on who and how wrote it. For example, Apple added BIOS
> emulation to the Macintosh EFI, so it does run real mode DOS - see
> http://www.freedos.org/news/imac/. (Another question is that
> they didn't do this because of DOS but because of WinXP, however this
> helps DOS too.)

I think nVidia's VESA VBE is nice example (or soundblaster, etc.). When a (even long time used) standard become less important and obsolete, HW vendors will spent much less time and effort on it and cut more and more functions until it disappear. I hope the EFI emulation will support DOS for some time but it will not be forever...

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

Complete thread:

• Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - FFK, 31.10.2007, 09:26 (Developers)
  • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - lucho, 31.10.2007, 10:01
    • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - FFK, 31.10.2007, 10:38
  • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - Steve, 31.10.2007, 23:26
    • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - lucho, 01.11.2007, 08:02
      • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - Steve, 01.11.2007, 23:59
        • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - lucho, 02.11.2007, 10:42
          • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - RayeR, 05.11.2007, 11:29
            • EFI and DOS, DOS on Apple Macintosh - lucho, 05.11.2007, 13:17
              • EFI and DOS, DOS on Apple Macintosh - RayeR, 06.11.2007, 01:25
                • EFI and DOS, DOS on Apple Macintosh - Khusraw, 06.11.2007, 11:51
                  • EFI and DOS, DOS on Apple Macintosh - RayeR, 06.11.2007, 17:29