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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...)