You can also buy a copy at MacMall for $2 [0].
[0]
http://www.macmall.com/p/HP-Operating-Systems/product~dpno~13045035~pdp.igfhgha
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Michael Brutman <mbbrut...@brutman.com>
wrote:
> Somebody should talk to HP and see what FreeDOS 2.0 includes. They are
> already shipping machines that support it:
>
>
> http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c04027658&DocLang=en&docLocale=en_US&jumpid=reg_r1002_usen_c-001_title_r0001
>
> On a more serious note, somebody should try to correct them ...
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/31/2014 4:22 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
>> >
>> > It's not my kickstarter project, but I'll watch and see what happens.
>> > I agree that FreeDOS-32 is a tough prospect. As you can guess from my
>> > other post, I'm very concerned that they can maintain any application
>> > compatibility while adding modern hardware support. If they can't keep
>> > compatibility, it's a dead end. But if they can, it's worth looking at.
>> Given that I am working/playing/programming with DOS since December
>> 1981, I simply don't see how they can possibly achieve this, unless they
>> produce their own reincarnation of something Linux-like and then provide
>> a VM to run 16bit DOS. And in that case, you can use a VM on Linux to
>> begin with. Or on Windows or OS/X, or any other OS that supports a VM...
>> >
>> > Even NovOS (also another post) was a tough sell to Novell, because it
>> > hoped to provide backwards compatibility while offering a whole new
>> > API to do "new" stuff. It sounds great until you try to do it.
>> >
>> Well, 1991 would have been at a time well before Linux had gone
>> "mainstream" and you could argue that the folks at Novell had already
>> seen "the writing on the wall"...
>>
>> Ralf
>>
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