Hi, On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 8:50 AM Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: > > That model sort of illustrates the concept, though. Both Windows and Linux > want to manage the _entire_ machine's > resources while they are running and one OS must give give up that control to > let the other OS take over. > I'm proposing that the control be outside either OS -- in a sense, give it > back to the "BIOS". The "BIOS" in this case > can be considered a common Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that all OS's can > share, but it could be "subdivided" > (e.g., a "memory BIOS" and an I/O BIOS" and ...). Some might consider that a > step backwards, but I'm not so sure. > The direction we've been heading may actually be backwards, or at least a > dead-end.
Maybe you mean something like this? "Apple’s MS-DOS Compatible 486 Macintosh from 1995!" -- LGR "The Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible is a fascinating machine. For $2,199 in 1995 you got MS-DOS and Mac OS in one computer, thanks to an Intel 486 and a PowerPC 601 inside! Yeah, mid-90s Apple was rather amusing." * https://youtu.be/9UclHrIIaYA _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
