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FreeDOS 1.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the begun-before-you-were-born dept.

Noksagt writes, "FreeDOS 1.0 has been released only a little bit later than planned. The 1.0 milestone is considered to be 'a stable and viable MS-DOS replacement' and features long filename support, HIMEM and EMM386 management, and CD-ROM support."

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  1. Bootability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How good are the boot disks? I am always running into situations where I need a "DOS" boot disk. Can we put this on a USB key or CD (in addition to the traditional floppy) and get our computers going?

  2. Wonder what grade Tanenbaum would give them ? by ray-auch · · Score: 3, Interesting
    After this:


    I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is
    a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not
    get a high grade for such a design :-)


    what grade would you get for rewriting DOS 15 yrs later, and would it be higher or lower than the Hurd guys get for taking 20+yrs to get to 0.2 (but doing it the "right" way, with a microkernel) ?

    "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU" - Andy Tanenbaum, 1992
  3. Re:Where does this fit into the map? by Ron+from+Oz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can do all the internet and email (yes, including authenticated SMTP) in DOS.
    Have a look at Arachne http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/, a fully graphical browser/email client/even a desktop if that's what you want.
    As it happens, my entire business runs in DOS.
    DOS dieth not !