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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by walrus01 on Sunday May 15, 2022 @04:50PM (#31390995)
Yeah, but why not have something that just uefi boots into a barebones grub2 and then cli only debian-stable and bash shell?

Forget the DOS part.

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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by admax88qqq on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:10PM (#31391159)
It's probably more like they have DOS support contracted out to some vendor. And when the systems upgraded to the point of not being able to run DOS natively the vendor built this franken-OS to fulfill the contract.

Renegotiating the contract to something sensible like "don't run DOS anymore" was probably hopeless in the face of the bureaucracy, or risked losing to contact.

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