DOS ain't dead

EFI and DOS, DOS on Apple Macintosh (Developers)

posted by lucho, 05.11.2007, 13:17

> In some spec I saw it has standard Phoenix PnP APM/ACPI BIOS.

That's good! So it should run real mode DOS.

> Don't scare us with EFI which will brings the end of dos era (running on real hw)

It depends on who and how wrote it. For example, Apple added BIOS emulation to the Macintosh EFI, so it does run real mode DOS - see http://www.freedos.org/news/imac/. (Another question is that they didn't do this because of DOS but because of WinXP, however this helps DOS too.)

Complete thread:

• Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - FFK, 31.10.2007, 09:26 (Developers)
  • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - lucho, 31.10.2007, 10:01
    • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - FFK, 31.10.2007, 10:38
  • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - Steve, 31.10.2007, 23:26
    • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - lucho, 01.11.2007, 08:02
      • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - Steve, 01.11.2007, 23:59
        • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - lucho, 02.11.2007, 10:42
          • Ultra Mobile PC and DOS ? - RayeR, 05.11.2007, 11:29
            • EFI and DOS, DOS on Apple Macintosh - lucho, 05.11.2007, 13:17
              • EFI and DOS, DOS on Apple Macintosh - RayeR, 06.11.2007, 01:25
                • EFI and DOS, DOS on Apple Macintosh - Khusraw, 06.11.2007, 11:51
                  • EFI and DOS, DOS on Apple Macintosh - RayeR, 06.11.2007, 17:29