Well, there is still Windows 98.
Anyway, MSDOS hasnt really changed significantly in many years, so why is
it important?
Hardware compatibility is a much more important issue for most of us...ISA
slots are all but gone, etc. What do we do with our good 'ol DVP's?
Ty K3MM
Jim Reisert <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
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Subject: [CQ-Contest] MS-DOS end-of-life 31 December 2002
A lot of us rely on DOS for our contest logging. According to Microsoft's
policies, all support for DOS and Windows 95 ended on 31 December 2001 and
product end-of-life follows one year later:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle.mspx
Of course, this doesn't mean much, since as long as we have DOS floppies
and
PCs that can load them, we can continue to build DOS-based logging
systems.
Has anyone experimented with any of these DOS replacements (in a contest
environment)? I thought that DR-DOS had some sort of
http://www.freedos.org/
http://www.drdos.com/
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/dos/
My recollection is that DR-DOS had some sort of networking support
built-in.
73 - Jim AD1C
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