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MS-DOS 1981-2002 RIP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the then-it's-the-undead-phase dept.

Biedermann writes "This is not exactly hot news, just a quick reminder to count the last days: A table in this article tells us that MS-DOS (as well as Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and NT 3.5x) reach their "End of Life" (as defined by Microsoft) on December 31, 2002. Come on, even if you loathed them, they were good for jokes at least."

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  1. Re:dos and freedows by Etcetera · · Score: 5, Informative

    I want to note that in all these years no group has been able to completely replace dos.
    - www.freedows.org doesn't even work anymore

    Gee.. maybe if you spelled the URL right!

    It's http://www.freedos.org/, and they appear to be doing just fine.

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