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FreeDOS  Reviews FreeDOS : Reviews : Do-It-Yourself DOS
Posted: ( Wed 13th Dec 2000 07:28:36[AM] UTC )
In the January, 2001 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal there is an
article about using DOS in an embedded system. There is a
comparison of interrupt-latency times (interrupt disabling
while access the disk), and FreeDOS comes out ahead
with very low times.
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Name
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FreeDOS
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Official site
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http://www.freedos.org
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Download from
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http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/
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License
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GNU GPL
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FAQ
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http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/index.cgi
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Description
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The goal of the FreeDOS Project is to create a free implementation of MS-DOS. DOS is a popular system, and there is plenty of hardware out there that supports DOS. The FreeDOS Project was founded in
1994 by Jim Hall.
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Development Status
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Very active. The site is up to date. Not as bad as most of the other free operating systems that seem to have sunk into oblivion. Still does not
have multitasking, protected mode. Works under DosEmu.
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