On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 12/29/2016 8:52 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote: >> >>> NO version of Windows will start from FreeDOS, not 3.x nor any 9x... >> I know 3.1 did in the past, with provisos, did that regress? > Sorry but I am not aware that anyone has successfully been able to do > that...
*I* did it, but that was many years ago. I do remember the VDM didn't work. >>> There is no MS-DOS 7, despite what people are trying to tell. That "Boot >>> part" if Windows 9x will identify itself as DOS version 7, but never was >>> a standalone version of DOS. The last standalone version of MS-DOS was >>> 6.22 and that is as far as FreeDOS can reasonably take it... >> There's PC DOS 7 but that's another story for another day. ;) > Indeed. IBM's PC-DOS 7 is a completely different animal. IBM and MS-DOS > parted ways after MS/PC-DOS 4.x. IBM never had a v5, skipped straight to > 6.1. And IBM was always "a number ahead" ever since (until the last > release of IBM DOS, which was PC-DOS 2000) Actually, IBM had 3 releases of version 5 (5.0, 5.00.1, 5.02) and the first two were essentially identical to Microsoft's 5.0 and 5.0A. -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
