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Re: [MiNT] [PATCH] Export function XHNewCookie to kernel modules



WongCK wrote:
That would be cool, it like MS Windows in the beginning.
PC load DOS which loads Windows 3.x, may be up to Win 95 ? I don't know.

You are totally right.
The situation is exactly the same for us.
TOS = BIOS + MS-DOS
MiNT = Windows 3.1/95

The old OS is not always clean, has a very limited API, and very few support for additional drivers...

The new OS has a clean user API, provides support for clean programs, hides the defects of the underlying OS and drivers, provides support for new, clean drivers...

However, the situation is significantly better on Atari, because the OS has always used 32-bit pointers. On PC, the switch from 16-bit to 32-bit pointers had been a huge headache.

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Vincent Rivière