Re: [Freedos-devel] Happy 29th anniversary to FreeDOS!

2023-07-02 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
Hi, On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 12:46 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: > > In 1994, several of us got together around a pretty neat idea. > > We liked DOS, but Microsoft was clearly moving completely to Windows. "The > next version of Windows," they said, "would do away with DOS." > > We wanted

Re: [Freedos-devel] Happy 29th anniversary to FreeDOS!

2023-07-02 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
Looks great! Except I was referring to [this logo](https://freedos.org/images/logos/freedos-logo2-lg.png), not the Seinfeld-esque one. :) Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. --- Original Message --- On Sunday, July 2nd, 2023 at 4:15 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Happy 29th anniversary to FreeDOS!

2023-07-02 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
+1 And lol, btw. :) Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Sunday, July 2nd, 2023 at 3:07 PM, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel wrote: > On 6/29/2023 4:24 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: > > > I've been experimenting with an updated website, and I'm

Re: [Freedos-devel] Happy 29th anniversary to FreeDOS!

2023-07-02 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 6/29/2023 4:24 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: I've been experimenting with an updated website, and I'm considering going back to the original 1990s logo. We can use Blinky elsewhere on the website, but maybe a "throwback" logo would be cool? Well, as I have never been a fan of that

Re: [Freedos-devel] Happy 29th anniversary to FreeDOS!

2023-07-01 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
--- Original Message --- On Thursday, June 29th, 2023 at 7:24 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > ... > > I've been experimenting with an updated website, and I'm considering > going back to the original 1990s logo. We can use Blinky elsewhere on >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Happy 29th anniversary to FreeDOS!

2023-06-29 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 6:11 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Jim, do you still have the original announcement? Would be an interesting > read I guess. > Here it is: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.msdos.apps/c/oQmT4ETcSzU/m/O1HR8PE2u-EJ The original name from the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Happy 29th anniversary to FreeDOS!

2023-06-29 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Jim, do you still have the original announcement? Would be an interesting read I guess. > Am 29.06.2023 um 19:44 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel > : > > In 1994, several of us got together around a pretty neat idea. > > We liked DOS, but Microsoft was clearly moving completely to Windows.

[Freedos-devel] Happy 29th anniversary to FreeDOS!

2023-06-29 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
In 1994, several of us got together around a pretty neat idea. We liked DOS, but Microsoft was clearly moving completely to Windows. "The next version of Windows," they said, "would do away with DOS." We wanted to keep DOS around, so we decided to write our own. That project, announced 29 years