Personally, I have zero interest in any on the versions of DOS that Microsoft has open sourced.
Versions 1.25, 2.0 and 4.0. Really? Those aren’t even the good versions of MS-DOS. I think if they were serious, they would release 3.3, 5.0 and 6.22. It feels like they are only placating to the open source community. But, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe they don’t own all the code in those versions. Or, maybe they’ve lost the sources. Even I have programs I wrote from back in that era to which I no longer have the sources. Even when it comes to the “good” versions, I have no interest in how they did things. Sure, I own a copy of MS-DOS 6.22 the last version of MS-DOS. I even own PC-DOS 7.01 (with the upgraded files for 7.10). But, I really only use those for compatibility testing of software. Oh, and maybe a little nostalgia. But as for the actual code they used, I don’t care. The FreeDOS kernel and FreeCOM make for a far more capable Operating System. With the support for more RAM, larger drives and partitions it is a much more useful DOS than either MS or PC. If I were interested in kernel development, I would study the FreeDOS kernel. I would spend my time figuring out how it could be improved. As for FreeCOM, I have my own ideas on what a modern command line shell should be like. But generally, FreeCOM is fine. Any bugs should work themselves out eventually. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
