4DOS (was: Re: Automating Bookshare)

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Sun Feb 24 10:51:33 EST 2008


It's an open source implementation of dos that's pretty much 
completely ms-dos compatible.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:43:09PM -0800, 
Butch Bussen wrote:
> I don't know what freedos is.
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
> 
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Gaijin wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:46:08PM -0800, Butch Bussen wrote:
> >> I still use 4dos and love it and also run 4nt in xp.  I'm not positive
> >> of the numbers, but wasn't there a fus with Microsoft stealing the code
> >> they used for double space or whatever they called it,
> > :End-Quote:
> >
> > 	Yeah, my Win95 CD has that.  Luckily their theft kept crashing
> > and losing things, which prolly meant they only fixed the bugs in W98.
> > <grins>  Now if they'd just steal Acrobat, Real media, and Quicktime
> > formats, I might buy Horizon/Panarama/View, or whatever they're gonna
> > call the next release.  I wonder if 4DOS will work with FreeDOS.  I
> > might not mind running Win 3.11 again if the screen reader works.
> >
> > 			Michael
> >
> >
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