RE: [MiNT] MiNT and MetaDOS

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

On 2000-5-2, Julian Reschke <reschke@medicaldataservice.de> wrote:

> > Why not put everything inside the XFS itself?
> 
> To allow you to use other people's BOS drivers?

Pretty hard, since BOS driver documentation is not found.
Besides, Atari themselves clearly stated that MetaDOS was
obsoleted by the XDD/XFS interfaces.

> > Does anything else besides SPIN! use BOS drivers, nowadays?
> 
> For instance the MagiC XFS, and DOS drivers when you run on
> plain TOS.

a) Does Magic use MetaDOS to load itself???  Or what do you mean?

b) Which DOS drivers?

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