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		codesnik on April 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unikraft – Fast, Specialized Unikernels some games from 80ies didn't even try to retain MSDOS in memory. The only way to "exit" the game was to reboot.

karmakaze on April 27, 2021 [–]

Atari 8-bit games loaded from the boot sector so 'DOS' never even got loaded to begin with. There was still 'bios' ROM support for basic I/O (read sector, etc).

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