modern serial terminal

[woodelf]

Chuck Guzis wrote:

> Haven't you ever written any OS-less software for a PC that simply 
> boots from a floppy?  Given that there's a BIOS in ROM, such things 
> are pretty easy to do if you don't like OS-es.  One could easily 
> write a PC terminal program that didn't use DOS or any other OS for 
> that matter.  For that matter, one could replace the BIOS with a 
> terminal program and throw away the disks entirely.

Not really. The BIOS functions SUCK. The whole point of a OS is to
do all that. A PDP-8 with OS/8 vs DOS. To me the PDP-8 is more modular.

> Cheers,
> Chuck
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