On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Jim Hall wrote:
And in fact, others have managed to run Windows on FreeDOS. That's quite an accomplishment.
I actually did it once years ago (386 mode even, and I was following someone else's guide). Wasn't very stable or reliable, but that it worked at all was a sort of miracle.
Perhaps Steve is thinking of DR-DOS, which was OpenDOS for a while. But DR-DOS has been closed source for a long time. And technically, "OpenDOS" was never really "open" anyway, as the license was "look but do not touch."
Yeah, no. DR DOS actually worked, but firstly was too weird and secondly was not in any sense what I'd call free or open source, even in the OpenDOS 7.01 days. FreeDOS at least mostly felt like it was trying to work like the real thing, even though it didn't always *succeed* at such (I've used it on and off since the late 90s).
-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
