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Intel plans to kill BIOS once and for all starting in 2020. This will make FreeDOS impossible to run on new hardware. Bummer. I often find myself wishing for a
by ashleyn 7y ago
Intel plans to kill BIOS once and for all starting in 2020. This will make FreeDOS impossible to run on new hardware. Bummer.
I often find myself wishing for an OS that takes you right down to the metal like DOS did, but reluctantly, I admit those days are gone as complexity and the need for security increases.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agohttp://songseed.org/dinghy/ http://songseed.org/dinghy/ There are at least three of us!
- mycall 7y agoWhat about AMD?
- mysterydip 7y agoIs there somewhere a DOS equivalent for ARM? It seems like the Raspberry Pi and similar devices would be great for a DOS-like OS with quick response and low-level access.
- 0815test 7y agoThe UEFI shell itself is a lot like DOS. It relies on a FAT filesystem, and commands run under UEFI have full hardware access.
- iso-8859-1 7y agoThe Raspberry Pi is so powerful, you don't feel the process isolation in practice. If Xorg is sucking too many resources, you can use KMS/DRM directly. If you insist on having no protection, you can build your code as a kernel module.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoThe Clover bootloader can basically load a UEFI environment from a BIOS boot. Is there anything stopping you from doing the reverse?