I had FreeDOS running on a ThinkPad 701C, which used a 486 CPU.
NJB
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 04:31:40PM -0500, Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 5:14 PM Rahim Fakir via Freedos-user
> <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> > Whats The main Diference between freedos and dos.
> > Which os The best, dos freedos runs a 486?
>
>
> As Bryan said, FreeDOS is a more modern version of DOS.
>
> Also, FreeDOS is open source software. Very early versions of MS-DOS
> (v1.25 and v2.0, at https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS) are available
> under an open source license, but these were very primitive versions
> of "DOS" that don't have a lot of functionality. For example, MS-DOS
> 2.0 was the first version to support directories.
>
> You also can't download (legally) a "freeware" copy of MS-DOS, that I
> know of (certainly not one that is of much use, such as MS-DOS 5 or
> MS-DOS 6.x).
>
> By "more modern," we mean that FreeDOS has more features and includes
> more tools than MS-DOS ever did. For example, the FreeDOS distribution
> includes apps and tools, including some network utilities. We also
> include compilers and assemblers and editors, so you can write your
> own DOS apps to run on FreeDOS.
>
> And yes, FreeDOS will run on a '486 CPU.
>
>
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