question about microsoft and linux

Charles Crawford ccrawford at acb.org
Thu Sep 12 09:14:41 EDT 2002


Will the old Window Eyes screen readers work with it?

-- chrlie.
At 03:38 PM 9/11/02 +0100, you wrote:
>It is a version of DOS made originally by Novell, who became Caldera, I
>think, and then part of that became Lineo.  In any case, DR DOS, most
>recently produced by Lineo, was developed until very recently.
>
>It is fully DOS compatible, but has its own TCP/IP stack, and a number of
>networking utilities.  It also has much more hardware support than DOS did.
>It also supports multi-tasking, and I believe it is 32-bit.  It is able to
>be installed on a FAT32 filesystem, and can recognise long filenames.  I'm
>not sure, but I don't think it is restricted by MS-DOS's memory limitations.
>It also has a nice boot loader which supports Linux and many other operating
>systems.
>
>That is a very very quick summary of DR Dos, but you should probably do a
>search on Google for more information.
>
>Saqib Shaikh
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
>[mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Charles Crawford
>Sent: 11 September 2002 13:30
>To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Subject: Re: question about microsoft and linux
>
>
>         What is DR-Dos ver 7.03 and how does it work in comparison to MS-Dos?
>
>-- charlie Crawford.
>
>
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