question about microsoft and linux

[Charles Crawford]

Seems to me that I tried freedos and it did not work very well.  I will 
have to try again.

-- charlie Crawford.
At 04:25 PM 9/10/02 -0500, you wrote:

>Thanks Ralph.  I found out what happened to the MSDOS alternative.  It
>seems from Dr. DOS with Novell, it turned into Open DOS as a subtitle when
>the parent company of Lineo bought it.  Lineo has been integrating it with
>their flavour of Linux products.  If you go to www.drdos.com, you will find
>a image file which runs under any flavour of Linux they say.  Lineo has
>stopped development of Dr. DOS because they feel Linux is the path toward
>riches.  Any comercial usage involves payment to Lineo for their last
>version 7.03 which multitasks and such.  But, do not take heart, Freedos
>exists today.  As long as it is for personal usage, Freedos can be had by
>all.  It is a direct takeoff from Dr. DOS.  The Web site is www.freedos.org
>
>At 11:28 AM 9/10/02 , you wrote:
> >Ross Eadie staggered into view and mumbled:
> >>
> >>
> >>At 07:09 PM 9/9/02 , Charlie wrote:
> >>>Heh heh.  Microsoft should drop Windows and expand DOS.  Never happen eh?
> >>
> >>On the topic of DOS, has anyone heard what happened with the Open DOS
> >>project that came out of the purchase of DR. DOS?  Last I heard they were
> >>multitasking DOS.  Given my current problem with the stupid SCSI adapter, I
> >>would be considerate of a move to something like Open DOS.
> >>
> >
> >Open DOS was renamed DR-DOS as it was upgraded from version 7.01 to
> >7.02 and finally 7.03.  The company that was developing this OS won
> >its suit against Microslop (Microsoft), and then stopped upgrading
> >DR-DOS.  I do not believe any upgrades have been done to the OS
> >since then, but I believe the OS has been released to the public
> >domain.  In 2000, I put together a list of operating systems which
> >were available for Intel type architecture, including DR-DOS.
> ><a href="http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~rreid/links/os.html">
> >The list
> ></a>
> >is a little dated, but it is still available.  Links are available
> >from that page to the various places where the operating systems can
> >be found.  I guess I should update the thing so it includes something
> >about Speakup--yet another pressing project;).
> >
> >Have a _great_ day!
> >
> >--
> >Ralph.  N6BNO.  Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O.
> >rreid at sunset.net  http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid
> >Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait.
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