Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 12:03:04 11/19/98
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On November 19, 1998 at 14:32:44, Komputer Korner wrote: >On November 19, 1998 at 04:49:14, Albert Silver wrote: > >>On November 18, 1998 at 20:14:37, wayne johnson wrote: >> >>>Microsoft dos may end; but, there is still alot of dos machines being used. >>>I have a few dos chess programs that compute much faster and more >>>accurately--then supposedly better windows counter-parts--when I run them on a >>>486 intel 100mz chip. There are quite a few chessplayers at my local club who >>>only own an ibm xt and they seem to do just as well in their ratings. So if you >>>have children and can't really afford a IBM clone that runs at 300mz--and the >>>professional chess software programs that also cost alot of green. I don't >>>forsee a complete end to dos..... >> >>Quite true. Here in Brazil, apart from the really rich companies, 386's and >>486's are the norm. Even a few innovative (for Rio) newstands control their >>sales and inventory with a low-end machine. Besides, the future of OSs seems to >>be either limited to bloatware or Linux (though music program specialists seem >>to like beOS). Time will tell. For a funny article on the upcoming Windows 2000, >>you might like to see John Dvorak's article in PC Magazine Online: >>http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/insites/dvorak/jd.htm >> >> Albert Silver > >Isn't it true that to load an OS on a PC one needs the CDROM drivers and the >only way to do this on machines that don't boot from the CDROM is to first load >the CDROM drivers via DOS? >-- >Komputer Korner Maybe for some end-of-life hardware. Any reasonably new CD-ROM drive supports ATAPI, and as you already know, if the BIOS on the machine is up to it, bootable CD-ROM is available, so the OS software can start installing without any diddling around. If the BIOS doesn't support bootable CD-ROM, you can of course still boot from a floppy. That is usually a DOS floppy (as you suggest above), but it doesn't have to be. It could be a boot image for any OS (Linux comes to mind as an alternate to DOS). Dave Gomboc
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