No, I didn't leave the word "Microsoft" out. You guys are missing the point.
The contracts with MS said the Dells had to have
an Operating System on it. People didn't want Windows on their new Dell PCs? Well they could get them with FreeDOS. It was a loophole.
Why FreeDOS and not Linux? The speculation was that Dell didn't want to support Linux, so people could buy their FreeDOS computers, then load Linux or BeOS or FreeBSD or whathaveyou on there themselves.
The FreeDOS did work though
