Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 31, 2004 09:12 PM
How is the MS-DOS compatibility of FreeDOS these days? Last time I looked (admittedly a while back), it wasn't that great. DR-DOS by contrast has long been an almost perfect clone (good enough to make MS so worried so that they explicitly added code to Windows 3.1 to make it break if it was run on DR-DOS. The famous AARD code). Its development started already back in the 80's by the same guys who had created CP/M - and initially MS-DOS itself was a just a clone of CP/M ported to 8086. So if nothing else, the DR-DOS authors have had a much longer time to get MS-DOS compatibility right.
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Re:Why DR DOS when FreeDOS is available?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 31, 2004 09:12 PM#