Hello go to http://www.freedos.org Its a dos clone that will run any dos program that worked in dos 6.0 or something like that. It doesn't have multi tasking yet but it will work with any dos screen reader or so i've been told. Hope this helps. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Ralph W. Reid III Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:28 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Cc: Ralph W. Reid III Subject: Re: question about microsoft and linux Ross Eadie staggered into view and mumbled: > > >At 07:09 PM 9/9/02 , Charlie wrote: >>Heh heh. Microsoft should drop Windows and expand DOS. Never happen eh? > >On the topic of DOS, has anyone heard what happened with the Open DOS >project that came out of the purchase of DR. DOS? Last I heard they were >multitasking DOS. Given my current problem with the stupid SCSI adapter, I >would be considerate of a move to something like Open DOS. > Open DOS was renamed DR-DOS as it was upgraded from version 7.01 to 7.02 and finally 7.03. The company that was developing this OS won its suit against Microslop (Microsoft), and then stopped upgrading DR-DOS. I do not believe any upgrades have been done to the OS since then, but I believe the OS has been released to the public domain. In 2000, I put together a list of operating systems which were available for Intel type architecture, including DR-DOS. <a href="http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~rreid/links/os.html";> The list </a> is a little dated, but it is still available. Links are available from that page to the various places where the operating systems can be found. I guess I should update the thing so it includes something about Speakup--yet another pressing project;). Have a _great_ day! -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. _PI = 4 * ARCTAN (1) _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
