[Novalug] DOS options -- WAS: Device naming.

[Bryan J. Smith]

Didn't know PC-DOS was still available.  Did IBM make the binaries
freely available (even if only free beer)?

I had a lot of hope for DR-DOS both with Caldera and then afterwards
with DeviceLogics.  Too bad both f'd-up.  I ran DR-DOS since version
5 and it was still solid through 7.x, with just a few nuances.  DR-DOS
basically wrote the book on good task switching with DPMI and then
introduced DPMS.  I was still running it under DOSEmu for clients as
late as 2003.  Today I just use DOSBox or my _legal_, open source
copy of Caldera OpenDOS 7.02 (aka DR-DOS 7.02).

I had enough issues with little FreeDOS details that I had to steer clear
of it.  I know they addressed the redirector and other things, but I still
saw things break whereas DR-DOS was flawless.  I haven't checked it
out lately though.


----- Original Message ----
From: Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net>

Do not need floppies - there exists an installable version of 
PCDOS 2000 on cd.

About: http://www.theosfiles.com/os_dos/ospg_dos_pcdos.htm
Otherwise he can download and burn the FreeDOS cd.
Opensource and free.  http://www.freedos.org/
Advantages of the PCDOS and Freedos over MSDOS - they have the date 
problem fixed :-)