Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 01:11:20 +0100 From: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten) To: toneil@visigenic.com (Tim Oneil) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970219011120.peter@grendel.> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970218102743.00998100@visigenic.com>; from Tim Oneil on Feb 18, 1997 10:27:43 -0800 References: <3.0.32.19970218102743.00998100@visigenic.com>
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Tim Oneil shared with us: > > > >[splash screen] > > Thats for sure. Even though Microsoft played Win95 off as a 'true 32 bit' > os, and it looks really neat while the 'hardware wizard' does its own > probing and selects device drivers and etc, at boot time I notice that > it continues to load the old 16 bit drivers that were (on this particular > machine) there before 95 was installed. I presume that these drivers are > loaded becuase 95 happily continues to execute whatever autoexec.bat is > present. But I have to wonder, is 95 actually using those 16 bit drivers, > or does it discard them after it restores state? Oh, sure it uses them. A lot of the instability of 95 is caused by those 16 bits drivers (so cleaning your autoexec.bat and config.sys is a Good Thing). It even installs drivers that hook on INT13, in- cluding virusses (no joke). An example of how 95 uses the autoexec.bat etc. can be experienced if you have a box with a primary DOS partition (C:) with DOS and 3.11, a extended with 95 (D:) and OS/2, a FreeBSD partition (or slice, in BSD terms) and the OS/2 boot manager. Try telling 95 that it should boot from D:. Ha! > I much prefer the probe > messages on my BSD box, at least I have a fighting chance of knowing > EXACTLY whats wrong if something fails at boot time. Well, yes, but since I boot my system more often than that I mess it up, I think the splash screen is a neat idea. - Peter -- Peter Korsten | peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (UUCP) | peterk@IAEhv.nl C/C++/Perl/Java hacker
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