Rugxulo, Re: your recent posts, I will summarize my feeling as follows:
"LZ-DOS" and other copies of V7.10 MS-DOS are still available. You may not consider it reliable, and Dennis may have some odd problem accessing it, but that website <http://ms-dos7.hit.bg> did give me, on 5-Dec-2013, a working 2-diskette copy of V7.10 which I was able to "install" on my system (up to the point of writing IO.SYS and MS-DOS.SYS, which I did not do since I want to continue with V6.22 MS-DOS). I again accessed the "exact" URL shown above a moment ago, while writing this E-Mail, and I again had no problem with it. Others can try doing the same. The 2-diskette installation set for V7.10 MS-DOS, available on that site, does work well, and it rather STRONGLY suggests its "installer" was written by Microsoft. From my own experience I know that this V7.10 MS-DOS package is virtually "identical" to the one offered by Wengier Wu, which I have used for my own tests of UIDE for at least 6 years. Others can try using the installation diskettes from <http://ms-dos7.hit.bg>, then make their OWN "conclusion" about the availability of V7.10 MS-DOS. Based on the above, I still say that "LBA" capability WAS part of later MS-DOS versions, that were and still are "available", and I still believe the FreeDOS "main page" comment that "LBA" was unavailable in MS-DOS is NOT quite true! I shall not argue "legalities" with you, nor in fact do I know any lawyers. My own divorce and jury-duty experiences in the past have left me NOT WANTING to know any! Instead of making such an "issue" of legalities, perhaps you should STOP at your own statement above: "Honestly, just use whatever you want to use, 'whatever works!'" No-argument here, so I will continue to use my reliable and SMALL V6.22 MS-DOS. I hate "bugs" and "bloat", of which V6.22 MS-DOS has neither! And re: your comment that "You can't 'freely' download, modify or redistribute any DOS besides FreeDOS", I can only say again that the above website most-certainly DID work for me! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
