The FreeDOS Project turns 10 years old today! PD-DOS was announced to the world on June 28, 1994. The PD-DOS project was later renamed to the FreeDOS Project. More here.
FreeDOS Turns 10
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after 10 years!
They won’t say they are ready to become 1.0 🙂
Not all projects base their release numbers the same way. esp for these kinds of implementations. wine, firefox and gaim havent reached 1.0 too.
First of all HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FreeDOS. These guys are doing great job of keeping DOS alive. well done guys. keep up the good work……
If you visit the site you will see they have a to-do list for 1.0.
US customers can purchase Dell systems with FreeDOS: Perhaps this is old news but browsing on Dell’s Small Business site, I noticed that they are now offering select systems bundled with FreeDOS. From the web site: The n series features select popular models from the DimensionTM , OptiPlexTM and Dell PrecisionTM desktop lines sold without a Microsoft(R) operating system. Offered for IT professionals who want control over operating system development and installation, n series desktops are available with a copy of the FreeDOSTM open-source operating system included in the box, ready to install.
Freedos is suprisingly much better than the comercial Dos clones availible. It also has some features that 6.22 doesn’t.
10 years, and they’re missing all of those features? Is anyone working on the project or is it dead?
“All FreeDOS programs must be able to correctly handle the Year2000.”
fffiuu .. It’s a relief. Would’ve been bad to see FreeDOS crash when year 2000 happen. Could’ve caused the end of the world, and stuff …
😉
Are there any modern applications for that new dos? Old dos and win 16bit applications will only work on the old msdos versions.
PC-DOS, DR-DOS/OpenDOS, and OS/2 are three other environments which’ll run almost anything written for MS-DOS (the first two are effectively “clones” of MS-DOS, and the latter has both a virtual DOS environment (providing a real COMMAND.COM but a virtualized DOS kernel interface) and the ability to boot actual MS-DOS/DR-DOS/OpenDOS/PC-DOS boot diskette images in a VDM using a technique called “Virtual Machine Boot”.
Windows XP too. I’ve run a large number of old DOS games on XP. The only extra thing I needed was VDMsound, but XP itself provides the DOS support.
“but XP itself provides the DOS support.”
which isnt broken because DOS assumes full control
Anyone remember Podoffsky’s “Dissecting DOS”? He’s released the source code under the GPL, and it’s available at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rxdos/
http://rxdos.sourceforge.net/
The more the merrier!
too bad its so tyed to the IA32 proccessor’s I have a stack of SH3 based Hitachi Parmtops that could use something other the WinCE2.0 in ROM