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		bombcar on April 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open Sourcing DOS 4 DOS was pretty reliable about using BIOS interfaces for drives; if you imitate the BIOS interface it’ll just work. The problems came from limitations of the BIOS interface (especially size)

lproven on April 26, 2024 [–]

Yup. Boot DOS off a USB key and it suddenly speaks USB. :-)

Only for drives, but still...

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