whitepaper from AMI on the BIOS-to-UEFI transition (very informative).
http://www.ami.com/support/downloadwp.cfm?DLFile=AMI_UEFI_Transition_Whitepaper_PUB.pdf&FileID=1387
how long will be be before BIOS function support is totally gone? I don't know.
UEFI is taking over and slowly(?)/fastly(?) transitioning out BIOS
functionality. This could either mean a transition period for freedos, or the
end of freedos.
I like freedos. I would like to be able to still write for freedos, but I am
beginning to think it's going to have to become some "other kind" of OS (at
least at the core?) to survive the 21st century. there will probably need to
be a UEFI freedos and a BIOS freedos, since they are entirely different in the
way they boot.
I am getting the impression that somebody will do something only when
everything falls apart. I hope I am wrong.
I am beginning to feel like I should be developing some of my disk apps in
linux from now on, and linux development is not my strong suit.
I dunno, maybe DOS just can't be DOS anymore UNLESS it can supply BIOS INT13H,
INT10H, and INT21H functionality even on top of UEFI. now there's an option -
a BIOS function emulator/thunk layer on top of the UEFI functionality. this
would ensure that DOS programs would have some semblance of still working
(although some would get a modification, such as fdisk and chkdsk maybe). If
you want freeDOS to continue this may be your only recourse.
hey - I am a forward thinker. I see problems down the road and I like to solve
them up front.
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Jim Michaels
jmich...@yahoo.com
j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com
http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com
http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software)
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Computer memory/disk size measurements:
[KB KiB] [MB MiB] [GB GiB] [TB TiB]
[10^3B=1,000B=1KB][2^10B=1,024B=1KiB]
[10^6B=1,000,000B=1MB][2^20B=1,048,576B=1MiB]
[10^9B=1,000,000,000B=1GB][2^30B=1,073,741,824B=1GiB]
[10^12B=1,000,000,000,000B=1TB][2^40B=1,099,511,627,776B=1TiB]
Note: disk size is measured in MB, GB, or TB, not in MiB, GiB, or TiB.
computer memory (RAM) is
measured in MiB and GiB.
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