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NVIDIA and nouveau

NVIDIA and nouveau

Posted Nov 6, 2022 10:22 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: NVIDIA and nouveau by marcH
Parent article: NVIDIA and nouveau

Because MS-Dos never claimed to be an _Operating System_. It operated the disk. That was all it claimed, it didn't claim to operate the computer ...

Cheers,
Wol


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NVIDIA and nouveau

Posted Nov 10, 2022 19:02 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Precisely - DOS sits at the same layer GRUB does, it's the liminal space between the MBR and what you turned your computer on for, not a useful application unto itself.

(Suddenly the EFI Shell being designed the way it is makes a lot more sense to me…)


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