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Re:The DOS 3.3 Sys.com Bug Hunt by jayofdoom on Monday February 24, 2025 @12:55PM (#43162619)
FreeDOS is good, but it's a different flavor of DOS and not everything directly lines up. It's certainly where I'd start if I needed a DOS, but I'm sure there are things it won't work with.
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Re:The DOS 3.3 Sys.com Bug Hunt by snvzz on Monday February 24, 2025 @01:19PM (#43162905)
There is Svardos as well, with EDR-DOS kernel, enhanced DR-DOS.

That DOS was already the better one back then.

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Re:The DOS 3.3 Sys.com Bug Hunt by lproven on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @07:43AM (#43171135)
I've been playing with it recently.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/svardos_drdos_reborn/

It's a lot comfier and more familiar in some ways than FreeDOS, and I have a little hobby project based on it.

https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos

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Re:The DOS 3.3 Sys.com Bug Hunt by snvzz on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @07:47AM (#43171174)
It's lovely, and can run Win 3.1 in 386 mode.

I am hopeful Freedos will also get there. I believe it is there already with out of tree work.

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Re:The DOS 3.3 Sys.com Bug Hunt by lproven on Friday February 28, 2025 @08:37AM (#43205409)
I believe so, yes.

I tried WfWg 3.11 but on reflection it was a bad version to try, what with 32-bit file access and so on. It didn't start successfully.

But saying that, I ran and supported Windows 2.01, 3.0 and 3.1 in production. If I never seen any of them running again I will not be sorry. I have zero nostalgia for them, or indeed, for CP/M either.

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