alt Hacker NewsIt turns out the Documentation page addresses some of this, though not in detail. Scroll down to the FAQ section.
https://www.dr-dos.com/documentation.html
The Wikipedia page describes some past legal troubles.
It turns out the Documentation page addresses some of this, though not in detail. Scroll down to the FAQ section.
https://www.dr-dos.com/documentation.html
The Wikipedia page describes some past legal troubles.
What this doesn't really address to me is why DR-DOS. That documentation uses a lot of flowery language to say nothing or close to nothing.
I'm too young to have used DR-DOS in anger (so I may be missing some key feature), but it seems like the entire point of DR-DOS would have been its source code legacy and accumulated feature set.
Here, my immediate question is why not FreeDOS? I'd guess it was system requirements, but according to the documentation DR-DOS 9 requires 2 MB of RAM minimum and a 386!!