Hi, I have no idea if you can still buy "full" MS-DOS from MSDN subscriptions. But there is a small "system floppy" still available in Windows Explorer. (Other options, esp. downloading from questionable web sites, are NOT recommended.)
EDIT: (quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Developer_Network ): "An MSDN subscription also allows access to obsolete software from Microsoft's past. Although they aren't included in the regular CD/DVD shipments, subscribers can download old software such as MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Such software usually comes in the form of ISO or floppy disk image files that allow the subscriber to reproduce the original installation media after the download." Just for completeness, here's the contents (from Win7's DISKCOPY.DLL) of the minimal "system floppy": =============================================== Extract NT - Extract file in wImage - V 2.10 (c) 1991-96 Gilles Vollant Visit web page : http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/extract.htm image file : MSDOS-FLOPPY-IMG\msdos.img no label COMMAND.COM 93040 04.18.105 05:54p DISPLAY.SYS 17175 04.18.105 05:54p EGA.CPI 58870 04.18.105 05:54p EGA2.CPI 58870 04.18.105 05:54p EGA3.CPI 58753 04.18.105 05:54p IO.SYS 116736 04.18.105 05:54p KEYB.COM 21607 04.18.105 03:04a KEYBOARD.SYS 34566 04.18.105 05:54p KEYBRD2.SYS 31942 04.18.105 05:54p KEYBRD3.SYS 31633 04.18.105 05:54p KEYBRD4.SYS 13014 04.18.105 05:54p MODE.COM 29239 04.18.105 05:54p MSDOS.SYS 9 04.18.105 05:54p 565454 bytes in 13 files, 889344 bytes free =============================================== So this is not hard to find (if you already have Windows), although admittedly you can't really "install" it elsewhere (e.g. hard disk) because it lacks FDISK, FORMAT, and SYS. But presumably you could use the FreeDOS variants of those tools to help you. RUFUS does (optionally, in addition to including FreeDOS) support installing exactly this to your USB jump drive, if desired. P.S. At risk of stating the extremely obvious: why would anybody on a freedos-user mailing list still need (or care) about running MS-DOS at all?? I know there are some minor bugs and lacks, but they are very few and far in between. Seriously, if there are still major bugs in FreeDOS, we need to identify and fix them, not hide them under the rug by always running back to (very old, hard to find) MS-DOS. The U.S. legal system just is not on our side here, so MS-DOS is far from ideal. At least FreeDOS is free/libre, that was the whole point! So just use that, and don't worry. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > Hi, > did not realize there was an 8.0 of ms dos. I don't suppose the same > technique que is possible to create the 8.0 edition as a stand alone? > Just wondering. > Karen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
