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Re:The 5.7 kernel is out by fierarul on Monday June 01, 2020 @02:17AM (#23375842)
I agree. It's a token gesture. Even if you do have SD card slots android offers to extends storage to that, which I think means it formats the card as EXT4 or something.

Maybe TV manufacturers care about this, but in mobile it's a non-event.

Maybe Microsoft could open-source MSDOS in order for FreeDOS to have a rejuvenating moment.

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Re:The 5.7 kernel is out by compsciphd on Monday June 01, 2020 @02:49AM (#23375939)
well, they have for early versions of msdos[1], though probably anything less than 3.3 only has historical value to anyone.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

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Re:The 5.7 kernel is out by fierarul on Monday June 01, 2020 @03:04AM (#23375993)
Yes, they like to do these kind of things in the name of loving open source nowadays. Also open sourced a 40 year old BASIC implementation which can only be good for a Computer Museum display.

MSDOS 6.0 might be interesting. Windows 3.1 too.

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Re:The 5.7 kernel is out by danieldk on Monday June 01, 2020 @03:16AM (#23376045)
MSDOS 6.0 might be interesting. Windows 3.1 too.

And MS-DOS 4.0/4.1, not to be confused with 4.00/4.01, which had multi-tasking features:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_4.0_(multitasking)

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