From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, July 16, 2021 at 9:58:58 AM UTC+10, anti...@math.uni.wroc.pl wrote:   
      
   > to operating system than to normal bootloader. In a sense   
   > using U-boot is similar to using Linux as a BIOS.   
      
   I guess this is the most practical solution.   
      
   Switch to PDOS-generic and use Linux as my BIOS.   
      
   And my INT 14H will disappear with PDOS-generic,   
   it will be an bios->fopen() of some non-hardcoded filename.   
      
   And the BIOS layer will use the Linux-provided TCP/IP   
   calls to turn that fopen() into TCP/IP calls. Or maybe   
   I can actually hide that in PDPCLIB for the Linux target.   
      
   I'm planning on creating a Linux distribution of my own   
   anyway. That looks identical to MSDOS except it is a   
   Wine prompt. The code is all written (by others). It just   
   needs to be rearranged (by someone I commission).   
      
   In the short-term I can simply run PDOS/386 under   
   Bochs under Linux. But in the even shorter term, I   
   don't particularly mind running Windows at that level.   
      
   So I'm back to abandoning PDOS/386 in favor of   
   PDOS-generic. Perhaps with a detour via a 512 MiB   
   PDOS/86.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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