Re: Software for MS-DOS 1.25

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 03:16:11 +0200
Message-ID: <20171013031611.00001b43@plea.se>
Den Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:42:53 +0200 skrev Michał Pleban
<lists@michau.name>:
> But this bringa an important question: which level of compatibility do
> we need to achieve? PC, XT or AT?

All PC versions can run all DOS versions atleast from 1.x to 6.x.

The only difference between PC and XT is hard disk support, or actually
support for booting from bootable ISA cards, and possible bug fixes.

AT adds support for the WD 1003 hard disk controller, which is what
every PATA/IDE hard disk emulates. No use in a CBM machine unless you
add support for ISA or an ISA compatible IDE controller.

So I'd say that there is not much difference between all these
machines. It might be a good idea to stick to XT if any software tests
what kind of processor the machine has by trying BIOS calls.

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