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Date: | Mon, 31 May 2010 12:55:00 -0600 |
From: | Gordon Schumacher <whiplash AT pobox DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: TSR of go32-v2.exe or TSR for unstubbed COFF executable loader |
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On 5/31/2010 3:01 AM, Rod Pemberton wrote: > Well, I was thinking about continued usage of DOS into the future, like > 16-bit DOS device drivers for ext2 or other filesystems, or like extending > Int 21h's exec functions to execute other file types, besides MZ and .com's. > If I'm not mistaken, this is all dependent on whether or not UEFI ever makes it... if it does, there's gonna have to be some pretty fancy compatibility layers in order for DOS - or anything else which speaks BIOS - to work at all. (It has occurred to me that this might be achievable by porting DOSBox to the EFI shell, or some such weirdness...)
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