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FreeDOS Turns 15 Years Old Today
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."
Oh really? I didn't know FreeDOS had NTFS support. But it's good to know, knowledge is never too much!!!! Well, in that case I am not moving away from Linux. I was scared that all I needed to gain access to a machine was booting into single mode, mounting the root partition and changing the root password. I mean, just by powercycling the machine and passing a boot option!!!! Thanks for your well informed and knowledgeable post!!!
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A pre-80386 machine (i.e. 286 or older) will at best be approaching 20 years old, if not older! That's ancient.
I doubt such machines would even have PCI in them.
No: it appears there wasn't much demand for 32-bit buses on 16-bit machines.
Show me one operating system that can run binaries from 15 years.
Virtual Console on Wii emulates the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System, which are old enough to be off patent (20 years).