[GEM Development] Liam Proven! DOS in VirtualPC

[Liam Proven]

Thomas, I am guessing maybe it's been a while, but might I remind you
of mailing list etiquette?

No HTML. No formatting. Top-quote and bottom-post: your answers go
_below_ the _trimmed_ text you're replying to.

You can just paste a text URL like this:

https://virtualboxes.org/images/freedos/

And I've asked a dozen times, but please please _please_ use less
emphasis! Your mails are TIRING to READ because EVERY other WORD is
SHOUTING!!!!11!

On 10 December 2017 at 20:42, Thomas F Clayton <tfclayton at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> All:
>
> 1) That which you're replying to [VERY BELOW], hasn't ever shown up in my Inbox.
>
> 2) I left one line - URL - out of the original. My immediate correction, also, hasn't shown up; back in my Inbox.
>   (Which is just ordinary for me and *important* messages to this, or any, list-serv. :-(  )
>
> 3) The URL was / is:
> (It is sticking IN the whole web page)
> [begin paste]
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> To ALL:
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> Just going thru my (very old) bookmarks at work and found one that lead to these FreeDOS (old) images.
>
> There are several FreeDOS images available. FreeDOS 1.0 Size (compressed/uncompressed): 84.3 MBytes / 375 MBytes...

Yes, Virtualboxes is a thing. Not sure the DR-DOS 7.01 license would
permit hosting there, though.

Anyone else who has a copy is welcome to look at the licence and try
to work it out, or to contact DeviceLogics and ask!

E.g. the kernel source is here:

http://www.drdos.net/download.htm


> Maybe we can create a more recent one (FreeDOS) /and/ a DR-DOS (for personal Non-comerical use ETC.) one?
> Two?, might be quite a challenge - but we can dream.

TBH I don't use FreeDOS and I'm quite busy enough with DR-DOS right
now. Creating an installed VDI with FreeDOS 1.2 is trivially easy,
though. Go for it!

> GEM images, too, - but what would be the OS ... ?

Well, it's GPL, put it on the GPL DOS: FreeDOS.

> From what I looked up and Liam said, that'd be FreeDOS 1.2 VBox "image" (file) not at Oracle - and I'd hope to create a DR-DOS on, also.
>
> DR-DOS? What vn.? ? you ask.
> Well, whichever one(s)  was(were) released for "personal non-commercial use" which would /HAVE TO BE/ attached to the "image" when uploaded.

I suggest you check with virtualboxes what licence they require.

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