On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I too was wondering about USB support for DOS. Maybe via newer
| BIOSes, or is that wishful thinking? With the new legacy-free PCs,
| even the keyboard will be useless under DOS without USB support.
| How will a computer recognize the keyboard for CMOS setup when no OS
| is loaded? Windows is not the only OS with USB support. There is
| also Mac, and I don't know about Solaris, OpenVMS (Alpha CPU), BeOS,
| AIX, etc.
There is a commercial USB for DOS, but it looks as if it is primarily for
embedded systems, and I guess you have to buy it as a developer's kit or
something. Here is the URL:
http://www.catc.com/products/usb4dos.html
This might be of interest also:
http://www.usb.org/
USB support for Linux is partially/mostly working at present. A guess
would be that pretty much full support will be in the next stable kernel.
The code was initially written by Linus Torvalds himself. Details here if
anybody is interested:
http://www.linux-usb.org/
That last page also has links for USB for BSD and BeOS.
Regards
--
Gregor J Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boston MA
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