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Life After MS-DOS: FreeDOS Keeps On Kicking

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 5, 2013 @08:29AM from the the-nineties-never-left dept.

angry tapir writes "FreeDOS — the drop-in, open source replacement for MS-DOS — was started after Microsoft announced that starting from Windows 95, DOS would play a background role at best for users. Almost two decades later, FreeDOS has survived and, as its creator explains in this interview, is still being actively developed, despite achieving its initial aim of an MS-DOS compatible OS, which quite frankly is somewhat amazing."

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Re:Not surprising by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-05 08:42 · Score: 5, Interesting

It would work well in VirtualBox, if it weren't for a stupid VirtualBox bug.
Re:Not surprising by ducomputergeek · 2013-02-05 09:02 · Score: 5, Interesting

I have clients who still are using systems, like sales and inventory sales databases, running on DOS and now using FreeDOS.
The owners don't want to replace something that works for new and shiny.

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