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Title    FreeDOS Turns 25 Years Old
Date    Tuesday July 02 2019, @02:59PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the information-(and-operating-environments)-want-to-be-free! dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/07/02/0515242

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)

Original Submission

Links
  1. "canopic jug" - https://soylentnews.org/~canopic+jug/
  2. "FreeDOS turned 25 years old" - http://www.freedos.org/history/
  3. "FreeDOS" - https://www.freedos.org/
  4. " FreeDOS's Linux Roots" - https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/freedoss-linux-roots
  5. "FreeDOS turns 25 years old: An origin story" - https://opensource.com/article/19/6/freedos-anniversary
  6. "FreeDOS’s Linux roots" - https://www.osnews.com/story/130237/freedoss-linux-roots/
  7. "FreeDOS turns 25 (open source, DOS-compatible operating system)" - https://liliputing.com/2019/07/freedos-turns-25-open-source-dos-compatible-operating-system.html
  8. "Jim Hall on FreeDOS and the Upcoming 1.2 Release" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/12/08/233235
  9. "Retro-Malware: DOS TSRs, Interrupt Handlers, and Far Calls, Part 2" - https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=16/09/12/0945214
  10. "Retro-Malware: Writing A Keylogger for DOS, Part 1" - https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=16/08/29/1953224
  11. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=34795
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