FreeDOS Turns 15 Years Old Today

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 28, 2009 @03:02AM from the keeps-on-ticking dept.

Jim Hall writes "The FreeDOS Project turns 15 years old today! PD-DOS (later, 'FreeDOS') was announced to the world on June 28 1994 as a free replacement for MS-DOS, which Microsoft had announced would go away the following year, with the next release of Windows. There's more history available at the FreeDOS 'About' page and my blog. Today, FreeDOS is used by people all around the world. You can find FreeDOS in many different places: emulators, playing old DOS games, business, ... even bundled with laptops and netbooks. FreeDOS is still under active development, and recently released a new version of its kernel. A 'FreeDOS 1.1' distribution is planned."

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Start FreeWindows7 emulator now by zhilla2 · 2009-06-28 03:18 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Ever since moving away from MS DOS (and gui they called windows 95/98/me) compatibility with legacy software has been dreadful - Microsoft practically forced the whole world into rewriting most of their applications for several times now! Since this is (kinda) happening again, they should start FreeWindows7 emulator now, so that it's ready in cca 2018 when Microsoft decides that its way too old and it needs to be replaced with whatever brand spanking new OS they are forcing on the world by then.