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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA329 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:03:16 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting? Message-ID: <1993Jan30.235814.11944@netcom.com> Date: 30 Jan 93 23:58:14 GMT References: <C0q94w.48p@NeoSoft.com> <BLYMN.93Jan23152157@siren.awadi.com.au> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Lines: 30 In article <BLYMN.93Jan23152157@siren.awadi.com.au> blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes: >that I could boot 386bsd, though the concept of MS-DOS being used as a >bootstrap loader for a *real* operating system does some amusment >value. > Have your ever heard of an option? Let make this VERY clear: There are many hardware manufacturers who love to keep their hardware/software interfaces secret and will only release the specs if you are nice and sign a NDA. If you think this is going to change in the near future dream on :-) We, in the 386BSD community, who have had to deal with the propieratory interfaces, has not be fun at all. In fact, it has been a waste of our time. Our talents, in my opinion, could have been spent doing productive work as opposed to long and many times frustating talks with hardaware manufacturers. So for the folks who have common sense, lets just do it. Amancio Hasty -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming