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[CQ-Contest] Re: MS-DOS end-of-life 31 December 2002

Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: MS-DOS end-of-life 31 December 2002
From: on5mf@skynet.be (ON5MF)
Date: Tue Nov 26 08:05:34 2002
Hi,

Maybe time for the Linux-guys to take over ?

Are there any contesters using Linux on this list ?

Anyone ever made some decent Linux-software for (contest-) logging ?

73

Jo ON5MF

>Message: 4
>From: Jim Reisert <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
>Reply-To: jjreisert@alum.mit.edu
>To: cq-contest@contesting.com
>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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