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to: John Beamish
from: Bob Ackley
date: 2006-10-18 05:50:56
subject: MS DOS 6.0 source?

Replying to a message of John Beamish to All:

 JB> From: "John Beamish" 

 JB> Google has a special search where you can look at code only.

 JB> Somebody put together a bunch of somewhat interesting searches:  swear
 JB> words, passwords(!!), rude comments ...  (If I find the link again,
 JB> I'll post it).  Found it again!
 JB> http://www.kottke.org/06/10/google-code-search

 JB> That's not the reason for this post.  This is:  using Google's code
 JB> search someone supposedly the source to MS DOS 6.0

 JB>
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=show:iYCH7ar9va8:L-KBhT6_3Sk&sa=N&c
 JB> t=rdl&cs_
 JB> p=http://center.cie.hallym.ac.kr/~yuko/cgi-bin/ez2000/system/db/linux
 JB> /upload/45 /1070214716/MS-DOS.6.0.Source.Code.zip&cs_f=/dos


 JB> IIRC, Novell developed DR DOS for quite some time and then released it
 JB> as an open source item (but my memory isn't as razor sharp as it once
 JB> was -- and it was actually pretty dull even then).

There's little difference between pre-Novell DR-DOS 6.0 and its successor Novell
DOS 7.0.  I have both but haven't used either in years.  IIRC Novell did release it
as open source but has since tried to recapture it.

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