question about microsoft and linux

[Gregory Nowak]

Yes, I have to agree. When I initially installed dosemu, it came with freedos. With all due respect and keeping in mind that this is not a proprietary product, I found it to be pretty crappy, which is why I got rid of it under dosemu.
Greg


On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 03:56:19PM -0400, Charles Crawford wrote:
> 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.
> >>_PI = 4 * ARCTAN (1)
> >>
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