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."

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In case anyone is puzzled as I was

[buchner.johannes]

Why would you do that?

These days, there are three main uses for FreeDOS:

      1. Running classic DOS games
      2. Running business software that only supports DOS
      3. Supporting embedded DOS systems, such as a computerized cash register or till