Re: Concurrent DOS XM 5.2 -- Using DOSEmu to _replace_ ConcurrentDOS!

[Justin Zygmont]

On 2 Feb 2002, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

 On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 16:03, Justin Zygmont wrote:
  oh ya, I guess dosemu would replace its nesessity wouldn't
  it:)  Well I send an email to the companys sales address
  and it didn't work so maybe they are history now anyways.

 You mean Concurrent?  Or Lineo (a division of Caldera)?

concurrent

  So how many versions of DOS did RH make anyways?

 Er, I'm missing your point on that one.

opps, I mean DR

  It's amazing how stupid some of these comanies were back
  then, all they had to do was give it away for personal use
  and they could have had everything.

 Actually, read the full DR-DOS license on Lineo's site.  It's free for
 personal use (and a 30-day eval for commercial).  The DOSEmu image is
 free for both personal and commercial use (by 1 license only???).

it's too late for all that now, I meant yeasr ago when DOS actually
counted.


 As far as Concurrent, I somewhat agree with you.  Of course, they had
 licensed DR-DOS technology from Caldera, so they might have not been
 able to, per the licensing terms.

 Sometimes companies don't have a choice.  ;-P

especially with Bill Gates at the keyboard:)

 -- Bryan

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Re: Concurrent DOS XM 5.2 -- Using DOSEmu to _replace_ ConcurrentDOS!

[Justin Zygmont]

I agree, that's why they should have given it out for personal use years
ago, maybe then Bill Gates would still be programming in his basement.




On 2 Feb 2002, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

 On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 20:03, Justin Zygmont wrote:
  opps, I mean DR

 Digital Research made an _excellent_product_.  Even Bill Gates admit so
 in private Microsoft E-mails, and new they could only win by bundling
 DOS and Windows as one product (hence Windows 95).

 Microsoft also used a rebate program to get rid of DR-DOS in markets
 where they held a majority share -- e.g., Germany.  Microsoft paid Vobis
 tens of millions of dollars to drop DR-DOS, and gave them hundreds of
 millions of dollars in free software.

 I _gladly_ shelled out $50 to buy DR-DOS.  I had legal copies of DR-DOS
 5.0, 6.0 and Novell DR-DOS 7.0.  I also now own the Caldera DR-DOS 7.02
 book, which came with one license.

  it's too late for all that now, I meant yeasr ago when DOS actually
  counted.

 DOS is still the #1 selling OS!  It's called Windows 98!  It's really
 MS-DOS 7.1 and Windows 4.1 bundled into one product.  Caldera was able
 to _replace_ the MS-DOS 7.0 component in Windows 95, and was working to
 do the same with 7.1 in Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98.

 After stalling for several years, Microsoft finally settled out of court
 with Caldera for ~$300M (actual amount was never disclosed).  Caldera
 figured it the money would help fund Linux development better than
 continued litigation.

  especially with Bill Gates at the keyboard:)

 ???  I meant Caldera may have prevented Concurrent from releasing a for
 personal use only version.

 Regarding DR-DOS prior to Novell/Caldera ownership, it was worth every
 penny IMHO.  And they only charged OEMs ~$13/copy on average.

 -- Bryan

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