31 Jul
2024
31 Jul
'24
5:21 a.m.
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 23:10, Ali via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Unfortunately FreeDOS (as expected given the nature of the project)
progresses very slowly.
Fair.
There are quarterly updates but they keep very quiet about them.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/
I would love to see FreeDOS become a full fledged
MS-DOS 7.0, would have/could have/should have been, replacement.
Agreed.
I still run
DOS 6.22 for almost all of my DOS needs. Not sure what others like to do
though.
IBM made the kernel and core files of PC DOS 7.1 a free download as
part of the Serverguide Scripting Toolkit. I consider that as a public
release.
I combined that with the free PC-DOS 7.01 VM distributed for free with
Microsoft VirtualPC.
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/59703.html
You get Y2K compliance, FAT32 and LBA support, and also IBM E and Rexx
if you want them. It works very well.
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