On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Henrik Schick-Hansen wrote:

> Fsf keeps a recommendation list for systems that are NOT GNU/Linux.  We could 
> make it long term strategy to have all parts of freedos truly free and to 
> qualify Freedos for this list.
> I mention this because I believe that freedos could have a lot more users 
> (and developers) if only we based development on free and open tools. If we 
> used GCC (a DOS port exists) instead of Watcom then we could benefit from 
> having an updated tool and recruit from much larger developer base.
> Freedos should be free (hence the name right ?)

Using GCC would limit FreeDOS to 386+.

FreeDOS should run on anything down to a 5150 (with 8088), that would be 
too limiting.

-uso.

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