Re: DOS as a modern OS

"Arkady V.Belousov" <[email protected]>
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Hi!

28-Окт-2002 16:36 [email protected] (tom ehlert) wrote to [email protected]:

>>I refer, making it not so hardware dependent with an abstraction layer,
te> anyDOS is 100% hardware independent and uses *only* it's abstraction
te> layer BIOS.

     ...whereas all more or less nontrivial applications under DOS should
use BIOS (graphics, etc.) or even direct hardware access (sound,
communiation, etc). This is nature of DOS, which presents almost only
file/disk APIs for apps and some primitives for memory management and which
limited by real mode. If you change something in DOS structure, then this
will be not DOS, but other OS - but then better get already developed more
complete systems like Linux.
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