Hello Steve Nickolas,
I've had ideas for bootstrapping a DOS using a separate IPL - and in
fact FreeDOS did do this at one point. This way, I'd be able to keep
basic drivers out of the main kernel, enhancing portability - which
wouldn't be a big deal with PC-compatibles, since the basic driver
On 12/30/2020 7:29 AM, Robert Riebisch wrote:
the question was about 'any "official" format', like in a standard,
not if that can be done at all.
When creating "a (new|first) standard", it's probably a good idea to
look at existing solutions.
Well, this all looks to me like looking for a so
Hi Tom,
>>> Was there ever any "official" format for a shared runtime library under
>>> MS-DOS? Windows has .DLL files, Linux has .KO files, and MS-DOS had...
>>> what, exactly? In all my years DOSsing I've never heard of anything
>>> official like this, so I'm pretty sure there was no such thing
>> Was there ever any "official" format for a shared runtime library under
>> MS-DOS? Windows has .DLL files, Linux has .KO files, and MS-DOS had...
>> what, exactly? In all my years DOSsing I've never heard of anything
>> official like this, so I'm pretty sure there was no such thing (unless
>>
Hi Mercury,
> Was there ever any "official" format for a shared runtime library under
> MS-DOS? Windows has .DLL files, Linux has .KO files, and MS-DOS had...
> what, exactly? In all my years DOSsing I've never heard of anything
> official like this, so I'm pretty sure there was no such thing (unl
