Are there any tablet PC's that can run Windows XP?

Vic RR Garcia wrote:

And anything can run DOS - so long as it has a conventional
PC BIOS - which I have no idea if any current win-8 tablet
has, and probably neither does anyone here...

And that's the crux, no tablet has PC BIOS

And you know that - how?

or keyboard or Floppy, or IDE disk.
Win98-DOS require those 3 devices to boot.

Wrong.

I can take a SATA drive, slave it to a win-98 system and format it (with
/s option) and re-install the drive back into the target system and it
will boot into DOS. No floppy drive, no IDE drive required.

(I run win-98 on a socket-775 motherboard with 3.46 ghz cpu, with a pair
of SATA hard drives (1.5 tb and 750 tb just so you know).

On 04/14/12 08:45, XP Guy wrote:
Vic RR Garcia wrote:

And anything can run DOS - so long as it has a conventional
PC BIOS - which I have no idea if any current win-8 tablet
has, and probably neither does anyone here...

And that's the crux, no tablet has PC BIOS

And you know that - how?

I read the specs.


or keyboard or Floppy, or IDE disk.
Win98-DOS require those 3 devices to boot.

Wrong.

I can take a SATA drive, slave it to a win-98 system and format it (with
/s option) and re-install the drive back into the target system and it
will boot into DOS. No floppy drive, no IDE drive required.

Because your BIOS is doing IDE emulation of the HDD controller.
Change that emulation to native AHCI, and try to boot.

(I run win-98 on a socket-775 motherboard with 3.46 ghz cpu, with a pair
of SATA hard drives (1.5 tb and 750 tb just so you know).

Yes, that fine with old hardware, but you want to install it into a
tablet, NEW hardware.

If you insist on crossposting to UseNet,
please introduce prior authors.

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Vic RR Garcia wrote:

And anything can run DOS - so long as it has a conventional
PC BIOS - which I have no idea if any current win-8 tablet
has, and probably neither does anyone here...

And that's the crux, no tablet has PC BIOS

And you know that - how?

or keyboard or Floppy, or IDE disk.
Win98-DOS require those 3 devices to boot.

Wrong.

I can take a SATA drive, slave it to a win-98 system and format it (with
/s option) and re-install the drive back into the target system and it
will boot into DOS. No floppy drive, no IDE drive required.

(I run win-98 on a socket-775 motherboard with 3.46 ghz cpu, with a pair
of SATA hard drives (1.5 tb and 750 tb just so you know).

On Apr 14, 8:45 am, XP Guy wrote:
Vic RR Garcia wrote:
And anything can run DOS - so long as it has a conventional
PC BIOS - which I have no idea if any current win-8 tablet
has, and probably neither does anyone here...

And that's the crux, no tablet has PC BIOS

And you know that - how?

PC BIOS. Like that. No such thing. It starts CP/M then switches to
IBM, which promptly dropped the ball, for variants mainly prefixed
with MS. Then it gets so complex, just say not good enough as if it
were OBDOS for obfuscating, whereupon someone simply had to cash in on
GUIDOS;- but, hey, why ever bother, when on a jellyroll, when chipping
I/O hardware into more variants, tablets, hand-held telecommunication
relays, or $50k car dashboard yuppie gizmos -- all of which are soooo
much more lucrative. . . It's the American Dream come true, per force,
for virtually nobody that didn't originally buy into the leather
trader's 80XX instruction layer at RatShack, premier home to a network
of real work coming out of garage-shop computer hobbyists. Hell, if
somebody only had half and idea now about contacting Tom Cruise in
setting up mission-intensive accomplishment camp outside of Orem,
Utah, and reinventing WordStar for the Tablet, long last getting rid
of all these extant bulky boxes, what . . . with the finance
intelligence community and all they know know about derivatives, the
world as we know could be ushered and transformed to a Golden Age
rivaling Plato's predilection for the Fall of Greece.


or keyboard or Floppy, or IDE disk.
Win98-DOS require those 3 devices to boot.

Wrong.

I can take a SATA drive, slave it to a win-98 system and format it (with
/s option) and re-install the drive back into the target system and it
will boot into DOS. No floppy drive, no IDE drive required.

(I run win-98 on a socket-775 motherboard with 3.46 ghz cpu, with a pair
of SATA hard drives (1.5 tb and 750 tb just so you know).