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posted by martyb on Sunday July 02 2017, @03:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the anyone-got-a-mirror-for-that? dept.

This last week the old disk operating system for IBM-compatible PCs, FreeDOS, turned 23 years old. Jim Hall, who started the project, writes the following:

On June 29, 1994, I made a little announcement to the comp.os.msdos.apps discussion group on Usenet. My post read, in part:

Announcing the first effort to produce a PD-DOS. I have written up a "manifest" describing the goals of such a project and an outline of the work, as well as a "task list" that shows exactly what needs to be written. I'll post those here, and let discussion follow.

He is collecting stories about how people have been using FreeDOS and will do so until the middle of July.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 03 2017, @12:24AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 03 2017, @12:24AM (#534291)

    ...and folks who had been forced to pay for MICROS~1'S half-assed DOS were disappointed that it wasn't DR-DOS.

    For example, Redmond didn't have the CHOICE command until v6. [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 03 2017, @10:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 03 2017, @10:06AM (#534400)

    Apparently you can still buy DR-DOS licenses for $79. [drdos.com] However somehow I doubt they are selling many licenses, especially at that price point. ;-)