DOS ain't dead

freewindows (Announce)

posted by kerravon , Sydney, Free World South, 02.05.2025, 02:49

> > If you search for "Freewindows" at http://pdos.org you will also see a
> > translation of the BIOS for those of you who don't happen to know
> Mandarin.
>
> Maybe reconsider naming of "Freewindows" -
> https://software.fandom.com/wiki/Freedows

I read the link - and hadn't heard of that before.

Regardless, I don't understand the suggestion.
Are you saying I should change from Freewindows
to Freedows to take over the name of that
vaporware product?

Also note something. Freewindows - or whatever it is
renamed to - starts life fully operational.

It is actually Japheth that has done all the hard
work. He created a Windows mini-clone. Far beyond
what I have done with PDOS/386.

It just hasn't been packaged/marketed correctly.

I think Japheth grossly underestimates what he has
achieved. He used the term "mere DOS extender" to
describe his own work to me once. I told him that
I don't consider the word "mere" to be a correct
adjective. He's created a free version of Windows.
It's amazing. I haven't used it much until now
because there were other things I needed to sort
out first. But now I intend to make sure I can
reproduce HX from source.

Before DOS 4.0 was released I had intended to
produce a Freedos-based distribution - actually
I already do - but that's of relatively minor
interest as it is hampered by GPL.

it is DOS 4.0 that put it at the level I am
interested in - opening up the potential to be
a commercial development. I'm planning on
calling my closed-source commercial version of
Freewindows "Dospire" (ref: Lindows/Linspire).

Might be a while before I make the plunge into
commercial operating systems, because I'm not
very commercially-oriented. I'll let the group
know if/when that happens. Now I have the choice.
My definition of "freedom" (or close to it).

BFN. Paul.

Complete thread:

• freewindows - kerravon, 01.05.2025, 15:31 (Announce)
  • freewindows - kerravon, 01.05.2025, 15:49
    • freewindows - kerravon, 01.05.2025, 16:20
      • freewindows - Oso2k, 01.05.2025, 20:30
        • freewindows - kerravon, 02.05.2025, 02:49
          • freewindows - kerravon, 03.05.2025, 06:55
            • freewindows - Japheth, 03.05.2025, 08:04
              • freewindows - kerravon, 03.05.2025, 08:50
                • freewindows - kerravon, 03.05.2025, 09:23
                  • freewindows - kerravon, 03.05.2025, 14:25
                    • freewindows - kerravon, 04.05.2025, 14:08
                      • freewindows - kerravon, 05.05.2025, 10:12
                        • freewindows - Oso2k, 06.05.2025, 06:04
                          • freewindows - RayeR, 06.05.2025, 19:42
                        • freewindows - kerravon, 06.05.2025, 07:51