clipka wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> I just booted a Windows 98 rescue floppy burned onto a DVD on a USB keyboard
>> on an x64 machine with 6G of RAM. Worked well enough to bring up a DOS
>> prompt and "more readme.txt" worked, so it can't be *too* hard.
> 
> Yeah, Windows 98 did come with integrated USB support already.

This was the rescue disk, which was basically an MS-DOS disk. You got a 
command prompt so you could run chkdsk and fdisk. No extra drivers.

Now, it's possible the BIOS is taking the USB and putting it out to the 
appropriate BIOS calls.  I suspect that's what "legacy USB emulation" means 
in the BIOS settings.

> I wouldn't expect MS-DOS 6.0 (for instance) to do the same stunt.

There were no graphics or mouse or anything involved. Since the topic was 
the complexity of graphics programming, I just checked to see if the command 
line came up and ran.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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