[OpenBIOS] ASM/C and 16/32 bit questions.

[Dave Cinege]

Adam Wiggins wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> >
> > We're going to have to provide a standard 16-bit BIOS interface if we want to
> > support DOS and Windows users. There's not a lot of chance of making the BIOS
> > go straight into 32-bit mode and stay there.
> 
>         This might be a really bad idea but let me know what you think
> anyway :) How about doing a really low level boot loader of some sort so
> if your booting linux it goes into 32bit protected mode early where as if
> you boot dos or win it loads into 16-bit mode with all the int's that are
> needed?

Boot entry with DOS compatibility option??

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