Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
Concerning Microsoft OS's and Bios, at least in the case of Win95, I have it on pretty good authority that the OS uses *none* of the Bios functions. This is documented in "Unauthorized Windows 95" and confirmed by the VP of engineering at Award Software. What I got from my
Not true.Windows 95 do not use bios in full 32-bit mode. But they are able to fall back to bios mode, and they do it quite often. (Load hyperdisk accelator to try).
Win95 (98) *IS* DOS no matter all the 32-bit extensions or not. I've even read Caldera was able to replace the DOS base with their OpenDOS, and will prove this in court concerning their M$ lawsuit.
I'm still not convinced what WinNT actually is. I know for sure that it uses DOS to boot. (Via my tireless hacking at it to get it to fully reside on and boot from a logical partition, of which I was successful except for 2 files.) It needs DOS to get to NTLDR at the least.