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FreeDOS is also used in multiple independent projects: FED-UP is the Floppy Enhanced DivX Universal Player. [21] FUZOMA is a FreeDOS-based distribution that can boot from a floppy disk and converts older computers into educational tools for children. [22] XFDOS is a FreeDOS-based distribution with a graphical user interface, porting Nano-X and ...
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.
Microsoft demonstrates MS-DOS 4.0 and MS-Net 2.0 at a Paris trade show. They will be released simultaneously in the fourth quarter this year. [291] Apricot and SMT Goupil both plan to support the new software. [292] Microsoft president Jon Shirley said at least one contract is pending with a U.S. manufacturer. He said that MS-DOS 4.0 "doesn't ...
It may also refer to versions of the FreeDOS operating system: FreeDOS 1.0 , a free and open-source DOS 7.1-compatible operating system distributed since September 2006 FreeDOS 1.1 , a successor released in January 2012
Microsoft DOS was released through the OEM channel, until Digital Research released DR-DOS 5.0 as a retail upgrade. With PC DOS 5.00.1, the IBM–Microsoft agreement started to end, and IBM entered the retail DOS market with IBM DOS 5.00.1, 5.02, 6.00 and PC DOS 6.1, 6.3, 7, 2000 and 7.1.
86-DOS (a.k.a. QDOS, created 1980), an operating system developed by Seattle Computer Products for its 8086-based S-100 computer kit, heavily inspired by CP/M; Concurrent DOS (a.k.a. CDOS, Concurrent PC DOS and CPCDOS) (since 1983), a CP/M-86 and MS-DOS 2.11 compatible multiuser, multitasking DOS, based on Concurrent CP/M-86 developed by Digital Research
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]
The FreeDOS version was developed by Ron Cemer and is licensed under the GPL. [8] DR DOS 6.0 [ 9 ] and Datalight ROM-DOS [ 10 ] include an implementation of the share command. Windows XP and later versions include 16-bit commands (nonnative) for the MS-DOS subsystem that are included to maintain MS-DOS compatibility.