Re: DOS as a modern OS
"Arkady V.Belousov" <[email protected]>
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X-Comment-To: tom ehlert 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.