28 Jul
2005
28 Jul
'05
9:17 p.m.
actually, my comments come from a number of forums on the matter and
the fact that I had first hand interaction with the Novell/Caldera
gang and DR DOS was available for web-based download up until some
point in 2002/2003 from their site. Lineo might have purchased it
before that, but as for where it was available, Caldera/Novell still
had it at that point. I was simply mentioning major names (not
intermediate) and DR DOS was freeware when it was still with
Caldera/Novell. Lineo may have licensed it or made it shareware (much
like its current holder, DeviceLogic.). Lineo's official releases
were not public/free domain, thus, making my comments on .04 and .05 factual.
please see:
http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225895/drdos/history.htm
states as fact that it was only available for OEM purchase in packs of 50.
during this time frame, it fails to state that Caldera/Novell still
had the 7.03 available on their sites for download (part of the sales
agreement to Lineo/SCO, etc). Research is a good thing...
-John
At 03:20 PM 7/28/2005, you wrote:
On 7/28/05, John Boffemmyer IV <john_boffemmyer_iv
at boff-net.dhs.org> wrote:
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Actually, it WAS called DR DOS as it used to be
owned by Caldera until 2003 (which was at one
time part of Novell). It is now owned by SCO
While I don't disagree with your comments about SCO, you're off beam
on the history of DR-DOS. Lineo got it before 2000 -- it's not been
Caldera/SCO property for a *long* time and you've missed 2
intermediate name changes.
There are
"unofficial" releases of DR DOS 7.04 and 7.05.
They are part of Partition Magic, Western
Digital, Quantum/Maxtor and Seagate/OnTrack
Diagnostics.
True, but they were official, from Lineo. They don't run DOS apps
well, though -- it's been tried.
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