LXer: How a college student founded a free and open source operating system
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Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim began the project in 1994 as a replacement for MS-DOS while he was still a student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in 1994.*Recently Jim agreed to an email interview. Correspondent Joshua Allen Holm joined me in posing the following questions to Jim.Don Watkins: What kind of skill set invites you to write your own operating system?read more
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Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim began the project in 1994 as a replacement for MS-DOS while he was still a student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in 1994.*Recently Jim agreed to an email interview. Correspondent Joshua Allen Holm joined me in posing the following questions to Jim.Don Watkins: What kind of skill set invites you to write your own operating system?read more
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