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The end of commercial DOS?

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preacher:
dos has been dead for years. In a while there won't even be too many legacy systems running it.

KernelPanic:

quote:Originally posted by WMD:
Oops, you're right, MSDOS did have FAT32 support.  But then again, MSDOS 7.1 wasn't really a DOS release, it was just the DOS part of Win9x.
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Yeah the last real MS-DOS was 6.22 (I think)

M51DPS:
I think that if DOS was really dead, no one would use FreeDOS.

Calum:
freeDOS certainly isn't and shouldn't be dead. although FreeDOS should look into supporting fat32 and possibly ext2 filesystems.

FreeDOS really is like a proper GNU operating system. conceptually i think it is as much GNU as Linux is, although it is only an 8 bit system so the two can't be seriously compared for functionality.

a LOT of things only need an 8 bit system though, and i think that FreeDOS and perhaps DR-DOS (which isn't dead either) will still be able to be used in a lot of commercial, retail etc environments.

flap:

quote:Originally posted by Calum is NOT a moderator:
FreeDOS really is like a proper GNU operating system. conceptually i think it is as much GNU as Linux
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Are you sure? It doesn't look to me like FreeDOS contains any GNU software.

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