Nice try Travis, but it doesn't quite work that way. You obviously haven't done much research, or you would find that it's not "obviously possible".
In spite of the fact that there may be multiple CPU's (or cores) in a computer, almost all of the other resources in the computer are shared. This includes the BIOS, hard drive(s), keyboards and mice and monitors (as you mentioned), and a lot of other things as well. Perhaps most importantly, memory is a shared resource, and only one CPU at a time can access the memory (and even CPU's can only access memory when some other Bus Mastering device, like a DMA controller or a PCI device, isn't doing it). In addition, there can be only one Boot Processor. Once the machine has booted, the Boot CPU becomes an Application Processor (and all of the other CPU's can become Application Processors as well). Basically, you need an overall resource manager to handle all of the shared resources to make sure there are no conflicts. In your scenario, that would need to be the BIOS, since you want multiple OS's to be installed with no "Master OS" to manage it all. BIOS's are far too simple to be able to do anything like that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
