Re: [MiNT] Shutdown() discussion

["Konrad Kokoszkiewicz" <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>]

>  Ok, you are talking about detecting NF here. A cookie may exist for
> that.
> As Conrad pointed out, cookies are good to indicate features. Like
> flags
> for different availabilities. In a perfect world, the BIOS would set
> such
> things up. In this case, I would think it would be EmuTOS's job to
> detect
> and setup this cookie.

Except that there are some morons (myself) who cannot force EmuTOS to boot
and because of that still use TOS 4.04 as underlying system.

Xavier's idea of detection can be used in an XDD and moreover gives a chance
to properly detect the feature even if the TOS 4.04 BIOS does not have any
clue about it.

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