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Subject: Re: Past of DR DOS (and FAT32 info)
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At 04:52 PM 3/14/00 +0100, Matthias Paul wrote:

>However, I do have at least some of these DOS issues from other 
>sources, including (if I remember correct right from the memory) 
>a full file set of DOS Plus 1.2, DR DOS 3.31, 3.35 (from various 
>OEMs), various issues of DR DOS 3.41, 5.0, 6.0 (including most of 
>the patches), various issues of DR PalmDOS, DR DOS  Panther , 
>Novell DOS (updates 4-9 are missing from by backups, though), 
>NetWare Lite, Personal NetWare, and probably all the OpenDOS 7.01, 
>7.02 Betas, DR-OpenDOS 7.02, DR-DOS 7.02, and finally 7.03 issues
>and updates.

Why not offer them to Lineo?  Perhaps they'd like to have some
non-mangled copies of their own....

>My personal much enhanced issues of the kernel, COMMAND, FDISK, 
>FORMAT, SYS, LOADER, DISKCOPY, DISKCOMP, DOSKEY, NLSFUNC, EGA, 
>COUNTRY, DISPLAY, NWCDEX, and many more, are feverishly waiting for 
>Lineo to hopefully release DR-DOS under GPL (or something similar) 
>so that the net community can ramp up new DOS desktop development 
>for better migration and integration into a Linux and Win9x world.
>If this might become truth, I hope the potential free DR-DOS and 
>existing FreeDOS developers will either team-up in friendship or 
>at least will help each other in technology and resource exchange.

I don't think there's any doubt of that.  Caldera's announcement
of their intentions to open-source DR DOS was greeted with great
joy and eagerness in the fd-dev list.  The later retraction was
quite a disappointment.

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