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Re:The Life of MS-DOS by cout on Sunday February 13, 2022 @05:56PM (#30326434)
Where in the chart would you put FreeDOS? AFAIK it's not a direct descendant of any version of DOS on the chart but is a separate implementation.
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Re:The Life of MS-DOS by shadowofneptune on Sunday February 13, 2022 @09:16PM (#30327735)
QDOS itself was an independent implementation of CP/M. The cladogram doesn't follow cladistics as is.
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Re:The Life of MS-DOS by Fnoord on Sunday February 13, 2022 @06:41PM (#30326771)
Since its 'compatible' it would sit alone, just like every other from scratch, compatible tree would. Perhaps with a notion that the source is available, FOSS licensed.
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