On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:06:49PM -0800, James E. Henderson wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > > >>> > >>> > >>Yes, it has / is. I recently bought a large capacity hard drive and the > >>software provided on the CD-ROM to partition / format the drive was > >>loaded with DOS as an option for buyers not running Windows. There was a > >>program version on the CD-ROM for Windows XP with the DOS program for > >>everybody else. > >> > >>James > >> > >> > >> > > > >But that would almost certainly be OpenDOS, which is to DOS what Linux > >is to Unix. > > > > > > > No, it was DR-DOS. > > James >
"DR-DOS is a popular PC operating system that was originally created and developed up to version 6.0 by Digital Research. After the demise of Digital Research, it was acquired by Novell who released version 7.0 as Novell DOS 7. Despite being a commercial success, Novell lost their interest in the further development of DR-DOS and in 1996 sold it to Caldera, who changed the name to Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 and released the source code of the kernel under an Open Source license. Subsequent versions were named DR-DOS again, but unfortunately, the development model was changed back to Closed Source. Caldera Thinclients, a subsidiary of Caldera which later renamed itself to Lineo, continued the development of DR-DOS as an OS for embedded systems, before they abandoned its development in favour of Linux. The current owners of DR-DOS, Devicelogics, acquired it in November 2002 and promised to produce an 8.0 version of DR-DOS for the embedded systems market, which was released in March 2004." http://www.drdosprojects.de/index.cgi/about.htm -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
