It's really too bad, though, that MS won't make it official and release the MS-DOS source as public domain, or at least one of the various open-source licenses.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jack [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 3:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS. > > 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! > ... > > "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
