Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Sep 2006 14:02 UTC
"FreeDOS is a project which aims to recreate the magic of DOS and bring a truly free GPLed DOS encompassing all the characteristics of MS-DOS with lots of improvements thrown in. A couple of weeks back, FreeDOS developers released ver 1.0 of their OS. I downloaded the full CD ISO of FreeDOS from their website which was around 153 MB in size. Since I have been using Linux as my operating system, I decided to install and use FreeDOS inside Linux by means of an emulator. In the past, I have used Qemu to run Damn Small Linux on my Ubuntu machine. And I was pleased with its performance. So I decided to use Qemu to run FreeDOS as well."
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2006-01-21
DOS was indeed magickal. My first pc was an Amstrad with 512k ram, K not megs, and a single 360k floppy drive. Furthermore out of that 512k the C: drive was a ramdisk in memory. And we're not talking a command line, it ran Digital Research's GEM operating system on top of the DOS like Win 3.1, complete with mouse, icons, the works, with -no- harddrive. I had fun making up special all-in-one boot disks with all the modem/BBS software etc on one disk. The monitor was only a CGA, but they used some hardware trick to make it display more colours than IBM stuff was capable of. The power supply was in the monitor so that the main unit didn't need a cooling fan. It was a simply brilliant example of efficiency in engineering and I still miss it, and in many ways I miss BBS's.