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Old 03-03-2005, 02:55 PM   #1
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What do people think is the best version of DOS for a real PC or a full PC emulator (like BOCHS or Qemu)? Personally, I like DR-DOS because it has such great features including a great memory manager and real multitasking. FreeDOS is also cool because it's a 100% GPL version of DOS...
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Old 03-03-2005, 03:23 PM   #2
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plain and simple: DOS 7.10
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Old 03-03-2005, 04:18 PM   #3
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yuck. m$. or do you mean IBM DOS 7? plus, i like to keep it legal, so i go for freeware and free (GPL) DOSes, before i try to annoy Bill Gates...
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Old 03-03-2005, 04:20 PM   #4
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http://www.freedos.org/
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Old 03-03-2005, 08:46 PM   #5
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Windows 98 SE.
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Old 04-03-2005, 12:18 AM   #6
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Windows 98 SE.
that`ll be dos 7.10 then?
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Old 04-03-2005, 08:25 AM   #7
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Originally posted by madcrow@Mar 3 2005, 06:18 PM
yuck. m$. or do you mean IBM DOS 7? plus, i like to keep it legal, so i go for freeware and free (GPL) DOSes, before i try to annoy Bill Gates...
Dos 7.10 is freeware
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Old 04-03-2005, 11:50 AM   #8
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Quote:
Originally posted by xoopx+Mar 4 2005, 12:18 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (xoopx @ Mar 4 2005, 12:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-dr_st@Mar 3 2005, 08:46 PM
Windows 98 SE.
that`ll be dos 7.10 then? [/b][/quote]
What some people refer to as.
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Old 04-03-2005, 08:46 PM   #9
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7.10 was god.
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Old 31-03-2005, 03:57 PM   #10
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can you install DOS 7.10 without having to format your HDD?
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