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MS-DOS, the Microsoft Disk Operating System, its OEM-branded versions, and x86 DOS clones in general.
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Why did CP/M and MS-DOS use the BIOS instead of their own drivers to access hardware?
the size for these operating systems would become too large.
I think that's a big part of it. Building their own hardware drivers would require both:
Space in RAM to be used.
Space on a 360k f …
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Can I run Windows 98 and games from the same era on an AMD Duron CPU?
I had one of these for quite a while (better part of a decade) running in a box that I used as a household print/file server. I had it running Fedora Linux (started with Core 5, upgraded to 9 later o …
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