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FreeDOS

FreeDOS is an open source MS-DOS compatible operating system project initiated by Jim Hall[?]. FreeDOS was set up to provide an alternative to MS-DOS when Microsoft announced in 1994 that they were going to discontinue the sale and support of MS-DOS, their popular single-tasking 16-bit operating system for IBM PC compatible computers.

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http://www.freedos.org/

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