Note on the FreeDOS "main page" that there are comments about FreeDOS offering "LBA" large-disk capability (48-bit disk addressing, not 24- bit "CHS"), which MS-DOS did not have, and which the "main page" says was unavailable except with DOS Windows.
NOT quite true! From having written and tested UIDE, I know that "LZ-DOS" and Wengier Wu's V7.10 MS-DOS both use "LBA" disk addressing. UIDE accepts such I-O requests and can do disk reads/writes using 48-bit LBA addresses, same as with FreeDOS. UIDE also handles 24-bit CHS addressing so it still runs with all old DOS variants. I use UIDE with my 1994 V6.22 MS-DOS, every day. Luchezar Georgiev offered his multi-DOS "boot" diskette, which has an "LZ-DOS" option. "LZ-DOS" is really V7.10 MS-DOS as a "VER" command will show. Also, Wengier Wu of the China DOS Union offered a "full" MS-DOS V7.10 system, with the complete set of MS-DOS utilities plus a good system-installation scheme. There may also be others. I believe Lucho's or Wengier's V7.1 MS-DOS systems can still be down- loaded from Internet sources. They are NOT "bundled" with Win/95 or any other DOS Windows system. Lucho's and Wengier's systems provide an "independent" V7.1 MS-DOS, which is still very useful. "Pundits" can say, as they wish, that V6.22 MS-DOS is the last "true" DOS officially released by Microsoft, and that there may be licensing issues over using V7.0+ MS-DOS. But, Microsoft has never gone-after V7.0+ MS-DOS providers, like I doubt they ever will. "DOS is dead!" has been their position since at least 1995 (maybe even 1987, as that was when they began writing Windows/NT). I and others who work with V7.0+ MS-DOS should have few worries about it, 18 or 26 years later. I believe the FreeDOS "main page" should be made a bit more ACCURATE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
