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A comment on The Life of MS-DOS.

Re:The Life of MS-DOS by pdenton on Sunday February 13, 2022 @12:25PM (#30323466)
The article omits the incompatibility issues with Lotus, and the patent infringement lawsuit about DoubleSpace.
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Re:The Life of MS-DOS by mrlonglong on Sunday February 13, 2022 @12:28PM (#30323496)
It also omits mention about things like FreeDOS that's still being worked on today!
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Re:The Life of MS-DOS by paulryanrogers on Sunday February 13, 2022 @12:51PM (#30323740)
It is strange though I suppose it could be considered an independent reimplementation since there is no shared source. There's also DOSEmu and DOSBox, which while not directly bootable, are DOS environments.
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