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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!news.service.uci.edu!ucivax!news.claremont.edu!uunet!pipex!warwick!zaphod.crihan.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!news.imag.fr!isis.imag.fr!cosmos!schaefer From: schaefer@imag.imag.fr (Arno Schaefer) Subject: Re: Need advice: Which OS to port to? Message-ID: <CB11pL.D12@imag.fr> Sender: news@imag.fr (Administration des news) Nntp-Posting-Host: orion Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France References: <233o0b$sr9@access.digex.net> <1993Jul28.081737.16319@int-evry.fr> <3390@vall.dsv.su.se> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1993 11:39:21 GMT Lines: 19 In article <3390@vall.dsv.su.se>, patrik@dsv.su.se (Patrik Nyblom) writes: |> Otherwise Unix/Xenix sounds good, but I'm afraid you have to rewrite your |> graphical routines, at least in some ways. Well, bios is the same, but DOS |> isn't there. Bios is not there. You can't use the Bios in a multitasking environment (well, at least that's the case with the disk bios - I am not 100% sure about the video bios, but I don't think it's any different). Regards, Arno -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arno Schaefer ENSIMAG Grenoble, France Email: schaefer@silene.imag.fr Tel.: (33) 76 51 79 95 :-)