speaking of „form factor“ I have to look at the „price factor“, too.
The Spectra.at Board-Set, Mini-ITX H110 159315 comes EUR 769,- / Stk. (+ tax!!), delivery time 2-3 weeks… (an no housing…) > Am 29.04.2021 um 12:41 schrieb Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>: > >>> ...the board format does not matter much. >>> It's the CPU model/generation that matters. >> >> NOT. AT. ALL. >> >> each Intel/AMD CPU produced the last 20 years is able >> to execute the same way that the previous versions did. > > If it doesn't matter "at all" then where can I get a modern CPU with > working support for ISA DMA? It was removed back in one of the Pentium > 4 chipsets so the CPU model/generation is definitely important. > >> to summarize: unless you have special needs, just every mainboard >> produced the last 40 years should work with ANYDOS. Don't ask for >> sound... > > That's no guarantee though. Some modern machines only provide partial > BIOS services - only enough to get common operating system installers > to run and no more. I have had machines that booted to DOS and I could > install an operating system on and it ran fine, but they would lock up > when I tried to run most DOS programs because they were missing a > bunch of ROM BIOS services. It looks like they don't always bother > implementing the full feature set when for 99.999% of their customers > it will never get used. > > It seems UEFI machines are the worst offenders for this, as they ship > with a BIOS compatibility layer that has been written from scratch, as > opposed to older machines that run the same BIOS code that's been in > use for decades. They apparently left all the old BIOS code hanging > around unchanged for years in those implementations, but when they had > to write a BIOS-compatible layer for UEFI from scratch, it seems some > vendors just did the bear essentials only. > > One of these was a small form factor Intel NUC I bought a few years > ago with the intention of installing Windows 98 on it to use for > playing old Windows 3D games, but alas I couldn't even run the Windows > installer either. Many programs just made it freeze. The device very > specifically states that it only supports running a limited number of > operating systems and they really mean it. > > Cheers, > Adam. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
