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[whitebread]

Tha1, on Nov 5 2006, 11:05, said:

Do it really need to be MS-DOS? Because you can try FreeDOS. It's mainly the same thing, and it's also free. If you want to give it a try, you can find it here

How similar & compatible is MSDOS compared to FreeDOS?

[Tha1]

guylaroche, on Nov 16 2006, 04:50, said:

How similar & compatible is MSDOS compared to FreeDOS?

They say it's 100% compatible.

[Shadrack]

wicker_man, on Nov 6 2006, 01:18, said:

You guys obviously have no idea that almost any manufacturing business still heavily depends on MS-DOS.

Even programmable mills that come out today still use DOS and software written for DOS .

[tiddlie]

themodernizer, on Nov 16 2006, 02:17, said:

MS-DOS 6.22 is still protected by copyright laws. Therefore, distributing copies is illegal.

The link is directly to a Microsoft server, therefore you can safely assume that Microsoft has no issue with you downloding a copy.

Either that, or someone at MS messed up.... I doubt its that though as the link is still live after 12 months...

[Chosen One]

http://www.drdos.net/

it's open source and I use to use it a long time ago, works great.

[strekship]

Tha1, on Nov 16 2006, 04:11, said:

They say it's 100% compatible.

It is not entirely 100% compatable with MS-DOS.

[themodernizer]

tiddlie, on Nov 27 2006, 19:43, said:

The link is directly to a Microsoft server, therefore you can safely assume that Microsoft has no issue with you downloding a copy.

Either that, or someone at MS messed up.... I doubt its that though as the link is still live after 12 months...

The link in question points to an update for licensed users of certain previous versions of MS-DOS. Therefore, using it as a full version is illegal.