On 11/2/23 17:01, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel wrote:
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023, Deposite Pirate via Freedos-devel wrote:
You should read again what he said. A 286 running a DOS doesn't need
"maintained drivers". If fdxms286 works on a 286, there is no reason
it's not going to work or in a lesser way now. DOS is not Linux/BSD.
People forget that it's possible for a program to be "mature" to the
point that, at most, all it might need is the occasional bugfix. Not
every program needs to be under constant maintenance.
(Not directed at you)
-uso.
In this case it's also that the programming interface is pretty basic
and set in stone. There is no constant code churn that could change
something a driver depends on and make it fail. In Linux/BSD you can
have very mature drivers too. But since they are constantly changing
things in the kernel, there is a need for regular maintenance to adapt
the code to underlying changes.
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