🚀 go-pugleaf

nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN) writes:

> Here a few summary points about BIOS:

> - BIOS is a pig,
> - BIOS is a pig,
> - BIOS is a pig and
> - BIOS is a pig.
NO NO! It's a great bootstrap loader (if you forget a few bugs) which is used
by all operating systems to load the kernel and it is ignored forever after
that.

>    - MSDOS has got the worst Memory manager,
Gee, I didn't knew that MooSe-DOS had ANY memory manager...

>CONCLUSION:

>  Microsoft!!....invent UNIX and make it free. The UNIX system is perfect,
>nothing beats UNIX. UNIX rules the world and UNIX was implemented properly!.
Oh come on! You wouldn't want Microsoft to do that! You'd get something like
Windows/NT... ;-)

BTW, good point, UNIX *WAS* implemented properly. I don't think SYSVr4 is that
proper anymore.

>If you can't do that, give us the source code for messy. At least that way,
>32 bits hackers can built it 32 bits.
Why bother with an old program loader when there are FREE (or cheap) UNIX
implementations availlable right now. Tune in on comp.os.linux and find out
about this wonderful free UNIX clone. It has X-Windows, GCC 2.2.2, SCSI
support, virtual terminals, UUPC, and almost everything but networking.

Greetings,
Peter Busser