DOS ain't dead

64-bit DOS (Announce)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 16.06.2024, 15:30

> Depending on what you're needing your software to do, you could simply get
> away with wrapping the EFI Protocol calls with Pos* calls and just run your
> programs directly under UEFI. The UEFI application environment provides
> pretty much all the same functionality that DOS itself once did.

I don't even need the pos layer.

I am only interested in running C90 compliant programs.

So UEFI is just another API for my c library pdpclib

And any of my UEFI executables can handle being
called either via the UEFI shell
or directly booted.

But I prefer shipping windows executables

Complete thread:

• 64-bit DOS - kerravon, 21.03.2023, 03:19 (Announce)
  • 64-bit DOS - RayeR, 27.03.2023, 21:11
  • 64-bit DOS - kerravon, 29.01.2024, 04:07
  • 64-bit DOS - segin, 13.06.2024, 20:42
    • 64-bit DOS - kerravon, 16.06.2024, 15:30