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FreeDOS 1.1, released on 2 January 2012, [12] is available for download as a CD-ROM image: a limited install disc that only contains the kernel and basic applications, and a full disc that contains many more applications (games, networking, development, etc.), not available as of November 2011 but with a newer, fuller 1.2. [13]
Freedows OS–Windows clone; ReactOS–project to develop an operating system that is binary compatible with application software and device drivers for Microsoft Windows NT version 5.x; Wine (software)–compatibility layer which allows to execute programs that were originally written for Microsoft Windows
Jim Hall (James F. Hall) is a computer programmer and advocate of free software, best known for his work on FreeDOS.Hall began writing the free replacement for the MS-DOS operating system in 1994 when he was still a physics student [1] at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. [2]
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Originally MS-DOS was designed to be an operating system that could run on any computer with a 8086-family microprocessor.It competed with other operating systems written for such computers, such as CP/M-86 and UCSD Pascal.
Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system.
Freedows OS was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 13 January 2013 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Microsoft Windows on 27 January 2013. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page ...
On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 3 and later. [4] The command is also available in FreeDOS, [5] PTS-DOS, [6] and SISNE plus. [7] The FreeDOS version was developed by Ron Cemer and is licensed under the GPL. [8]