Hi again, On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 12:41 PM Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
Or maybe something like this? * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genode _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
