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I think DOS is closer to a "library OS" or unikernel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel OS virtualization ca

I think DOS is closer to a "library OS" or unikernel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel OS virtualization can overcome some of these drawbacks on commodity hardware. ...and that's exactly what Windows/386 and later did.

anthk 2y ago
DOS is basically a wrapper around the BIOS.
- rnd0 2y ago
  Functionally (not conceptually) like UEFI, kinda?
  - anthk 2y ago
    Yes and no. DOS did far more, it even had external Glide libraries.