FreeDOS Celebrates More Than 30 Years of Command Prompts With New Release

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By EditorDavidApr 13, 2025, 11:34 am209 ptsTop
When Microsoft announced it would stop developing MS-DOS after 1995, college student Jim Hall "packaged my own extended DOS utilities, as did others," according to the web site for the resulting "FreeDOS" project. Jim Hall is also Slashdot reader #2,985, and more than 30 years later he's "keeping the dream of…

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