Hi, On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 4:19 PM Steve Nickolas <usots...@buric.co> wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, François Revol wrote: > > > Nice to see some retro people interested in legal issues :-) > > Which reminds me... > > The other day I was looking for assistance in cleanrooming some pieces of > MS-DOS 2.11 and 3.x so that I had an option for systems where FreeDOS > might be less than ideal (like PCs with only 256K RAM, such as my first > couple were).
BTW, I don't know if FreeCOM (latest prerelease, b6) still cares about VSWAP etc., but it used to work. Not out of pure need, only curiosity, I somewhat tried it on my old BARE_DOS floppy. So you can save "some" conventional RAM with that. > I got a "why not use the DR DOS 7.01 / leaked MS-DOS 6 beta > source?" - yeah, they might be *useful*, but they won't be *legitimate* > which is what I wanted. Definitely don't go near leaked source code, if you can avoid it (depending on your resident country's laws). However, AFAIK, "OpenDOS" (kernel and shell only) is "sources available, non-commercial only". So not exactly free/libre, but at least it's not illegal. That's what EDR-DOS is based upon. Those are still available via WayBack (Web Archive). Maybe you already know this, but I'm just chiming in for completeness. * http://web.archive.org/web/20151213035751/http://drdosprojects.de/index.cgi/download.htm _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
