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From: ade@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Adrian Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting?
Message-ID: <1993Jan13.102710.26478@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Jan 93 10:27:10 GMT
References: <C0q94w.48p@NeoSoft.com>
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
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In <C0q94w.48p@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>Hey, how about making the second stage boot, say Julian's loader, an
>executable DOS program?
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>The only drawback is you'd need a DOS partition or floppy to do it that
>way, no biggie but possibly offensive to purists.
And extra RAM to have DOS and the resident part of the command-line
interpreter resident in memory.
Cheers,
Adrian
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