On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 14:02, Michael Christopher Robinson <michae...@charter.net> wrote: > > I am fully aware that BIOS used to be updated in MS-DOS. I am 41 years old, > older than some people who seem to be experts on this and probably older than > Liam.
I have 12 years and a lot more than 12 operating systems on you. So, no. You are wrong. Again. > Reality is, Windows 95 dos and Windows 98SE DOS is not really dos per se Wrong. > and Windows ME DOS is definitely a weird hybrid that is way different from > all previous versions of MS-DOS that Microsoft created. Wrong. > I agree that using Windows NT to update BIOS or even Firmware is > foolishness. Real NT is fine. Fake NT (e.g. ReactOS or WINE) is _not_ fine. > Microsoft could have open sourced MS-DOS 4.0, they never have. [1] MS *has* open-sourced DOS 1 and 2. https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS [2] MS didn't write DOS 4. IBM did. > The Raspberry Pi which is sadly a proprietary hardware platform, does nut > support DOS. I thought it did by some miracle. It doesn't. It can't. It's an ARM chip. DOS doesn't run on ARMs and ARM OSes don't run on DOS. You also can't fit bicycle tyres to an Aston Martin. They are different beasts. > Apparently, nobody has released a hypervisor for the Raspberry Pi 4 that will > emulate an 80386 or earlier well enough to run FreeDOS or any DOS without > issues. This is nothing to do with hypervisors. No hypervisor can run an x86 OS on an ARM, or an ARM OS on an x86. What you need is an emulator. You can emulate DOS on a Pi if you want. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=255551 https://github.com/jhhoward/Faux86/releases -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
