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From: Bud Burnham <caburnham AT myexcel DOT com>
Subject: Re: latest versions of dos?
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Datalight is constantly updating their product, ROM-DOS.  They have 
versions for 6.22 and 7.1 compatibility.  Both versions support 
Longfilenames within the kernel.  The 7.1 version supports fat32 
drives.  They have an single user version available for $37.50.  See 
http://www.datalight.com for more details

Bud

At 06:04 PM 4/1/03 +0200, you wrote:

>On Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:51 PM, Jim Stevenson wrote:
>
> > What are the latest versions of all the currently available doss?
>
>MS-DOS 6.22             - not available any more
>                           (last stand-alone DOS from Microsoft)
>MS-DOS 8.0 (Windows ME) - not recommendable, go for MS-DOS 7.10
>                           (Windows 98 SE) instead. Both support
>                           LBA and FAT32.
>                           No longer available from Microsoft, but
>                           you may still find it in stores if you
>                           search for it a little.
>
>PC DOS 2000             - still commercially available from IBM
>                           (this version is PC DOS 7.0 revision 1),
>                           very recommendable as "a better MS-DOS
>                           6.22", but rather costy, unfortunately.
>
>PC DOS 7.1              - only available to IBM OEMs, not to
>                           end-users. Supports LBA and FAT32
>                           (AFAIK not based on Microsoft's implementation,
>                           hence there are significant differences
>                           compared to MS-DOS 7.10).
>
>DR-DOS 7.03             - still commercially available from
>                           DeviceLogics, Inc.
>DR-DOS 7.04/7.05 & 7.06 - various OEM versions, not available
>                           to end-users, support LBA and FAT32.
>(DR-DOS 8.0)            - announced by DeviceLogics, Inc. for 2003,
>                           not yet available.
>
>FreeDOS                 - still beta, but free and with full source
>                           code. Don't know what's the current
>                           version right now... Anyone?
>                           Recent versions support LBA and FAT32.
>
>There are more DOSes on the market (PhysTechSys PTS-DOS 2000,
>Paragon's PTS-DOS 32, Datalight ROM-DOS, General Software
>Embedded DOS), but right now, I'm not up to date in regard
>to their latest versions.
>
>Hope it helps,
>
>  Matthias
>
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