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FreeDOS Turns 25 Years Old

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 02 2019, @02:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the information-(and-operating-environments)-want-to-be-free! dept.

canopic jug writes:

Last week, FreeDOS turned 25 years old. FreeDOS is a complete, Free Software Disk Operating System (DOS) and a drop-in replacement for MS-DOS which has disappeared long ago. It is still used in certain niche cases such as playing legacy games, running legacy software, or certain embedded systems. Back in the day, it was also quite useful for updating BIOS.

Of those that will be, are, or have been using it, what tasks has it been good for?

Also, at:
The Linux Journal : FreeDOS's Linux Roots
OpenSource.com : FreeDOS turns 25 years old: An origin story
OS News : FreeDOS’s Linux roots
Lilliputing : FreeDOS turns 25 (open source, DOS-compatible operating system)

Earlier on SN:
Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release (2016)
Retro-Malware: DOS TSRs, Interrupt Handlers, and Far Calls, Part 2 (2016)
Retro-Malware: Writing A Keylogger for DOS, Part 1 (2016)

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 02 2019, @04:53PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 02 2019, @04:53PM (#862451) Journal

    DOS is not quite like running Linux as root. DOS has this additional fine quality that an ordinary DOS 'user space' program has full access to all of the hardware.

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