RE: [MiNT] MiNT and MetaDOS

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

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

> > Besides, Atari themselves clearly stated that MetaDOS was
> > obsoleted by the XDD/XFS interfaces.
> 
> XFS still need a way to physically access the device, and a
> well-defined OS layer is right thing to do.

Isn't low-level hardware access the purpose of XDD?

> SPINMAGC.XFS uses BOS drivers.

Does anything else besides SPIN! use BOS drivers, nowadays?
I'd like to heard some names.

> HSMAY*.DOS, ISO9660F.DOS, HS-ISO.DOS, SPIN.DOS.

All of which have XFS equivalents, both on Magic and MiNT, at
least as far as SPIN! is concerned, no?

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