You know what I found amusing in the article?
assuming this is correct, one could buy the entire code for $25k, smiles.
A bargain perhaps by many standards..especially given how many systems
adjust given away these days.
I do sincerely think the community for a chance to think through what
we have done.
Kare
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Karen Lewellen
> <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote:
>>
>> interesting read...complete with weikipedia's often begging for real sources
>> smiles.
>> still it seems the novel 7 is older officially than what we are already
>> using.
>
> CP/M-86 eventually evolved into DR-DOS (and even uses similar internal
> versioning) with many improvements, which was a big motivating factor
> (allegedly) for some features in MS-DOS 5 and 6 (e.g. HILOAD, MEMMAX).
> DR-DOS was originally from Digital Research ("DR", no surprise).
> DR-DOS 5 was their MS-DOS 3.3 compatible, DR-DOS 6 was MS-DOS 5, and
> DR-DOS 7 calls itself compatible with IBM 6 (probably due to
> IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM or whatever, I forget offhand).
>
> Novell apparently wanted to compete with MS-DOS at one time, so they
> bought DR, hence the naming of Novell DOS. That was the 7.00 version
> with true pre-emptive multitasking. But they didn't keep it up very
> long. I think they discontinued it when it was announced that Win95
> would include MS-DOS 7 by default. They sold it (or branched it off?)
> to Caldera. DR-DOS 7.03 still says "Caldera" on it.
>
> Caldera turned into Lineo (embedded systems??) and eventually sold
> (forked?) off to DeviceLogics and DR-DOS, Inc., which is (I think)
> where it stands today. I don't think they ever cared as much for DOS
> as Linux. I think rumor was that they used DR-DOS profits to fund
> their Linux-based businesses.
>
> Anyways, the whole OpenDOS mess was only temporary, hence 1997 saw the
> rise and fall of OpenDOS 7.01, the only release (kernel and shell
> sources but non-commercial only). Due to too many compilers and
> archaic version control, they didn't even release the last Novell
> version, so it lacked a few important bugfixes. DR-DOS 7.02 and 7.03
> (commercial, closed source) followed (until late 1998 / early 1999)
> with quite a few improvements (e.g. bugfixed 32-bit DPMI) thanks to
> Matthias Paul and others, but Caldera disbanded them after that, so it
> wasn't really worked on anymore (not counting the very spartan
> unofficial 7.04 with a few tweaks for certain OEMs). And no, DR-DOS
> 7.03 doesn't include any FAT32 nor LFN stuff (why, patents??).
>
> I'm probably summarizing this badly, but that's roughly how I
> understand it (from far away, of course).
>
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