FreeDOS is a free and open-source operating system compatible with MS-DOS, which began as a project to create a free replacement for DOS after Microsoft announced that it would stop supporting MS-DOS in favour of Windows. It was started by Jim Hall, then a student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, under the original name PD-DOS, and many volunteers contributed to it. The system is released under the GNU General Public License and includes a kernel, a command interpreter and many utilities. FreeDOS is used to run old DOS software and games, in embedded systems, and to run firmware update tools on computers that come without an operating system. The first full version, 1.0, came in 2006.
Before and after
- from 1998 to 2017Launch of DMOZ
- 1998Publication of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- 1998Supernovae show that cosmic expansion is accelerating
- 19981998 becomes the warmest year on record
- 12 January 1998Creation of FreeDOS
- 28 January 1998Construction of Stade de France
- 2 February 1998Rise of open source
- from 27 February 1998 to 11 June 1999Kosovo War
- 29 March 1998Construction of Vasco da Gama Bridge
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