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From: "Veit Kannegieser" <vk AT Informatik DOT TU-Cottbus DOT DE>
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:25:38 +0100 (CET)
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Subject: Re: ECS won't run DOS?
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Arkady V.Belousov wrote:

> >> The Chipset on the motherboard is too new to run in DOS so there
>RD> can be a problem running the program in real DOS mode.
> >> ECSUSA Tech Support

>     Not much. Until there is proper BIOS, which supports all well known
>APIs, then DOS should be runnable.

Agreed. But there a lot of grey areas. Like missing/bad power management
implementation. Not fully initialized PCI devices.
The answer is perhaps the typical support answer for all
untested/unsupported combinations.

On eComstation[OS/2] there is an problem when the APM driver
calls the 'connect APM' BIOS procedure. If the call is 
done with CPU cache on, the System will trap on return
because of an inaccessible stack.


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Veit Kannegieser

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