DOS lives! Open source reinvents past
Twelve years after Microsoft announced it would stop development of DOS, an open source replacement - FreeDOS - has hit its 1.0 release.
The FreeDOS project was launched in a 1994 manifesto by free software developer Jim Hall, following Microsoft's announcement that it would stop developing DOS with the launch of Windows 95. The resulting operating system is fully open source, with most components covered by the GNU General Public License, and provides MS-DOS compatibility to the extent of being able to run some versions of Windows.
The project was planned to hit 1.0, the mark of maturity in the open source world, at the end of July. Developers said the operating system supports several features that never made it into the officially supported Microsoft versions, such as internationalisation, power management and ASPI. Other features in the 1.0 version include...
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