[CQ-Contest] MS-DOS end-of-life 31 December 2002

[Ron Notarius WN3VAW]

I guess this means you have about a month to go to Micro$oft'$ web $ite and
download any remaining drivers or other add-ons for MS DOS & Windows 95.  I
guess it's just too much bother for Micro$oft to simply leave those pages
alone and unchanged (how dare we consumers continue to use older computer
technology in terms of hardware and software, don't we know better?, he
mutters sarcastically)

Digital Research's DR-DOS (also known as Novell DOS, since Novell owned
Digital Research for awhile) versions 6 & 7 were equivalent to or better
than MS-DOS 5.x & 6.x for networking support; certainly no reason to suspect
that it's been removed.  Same with IBM PC-DOS v.6. and higher.  And don't
forget about OS/2, if you can still find it somewhere; much of the time, the
OS/2 DOS compatibility box was better than the one(s) in Win 9x --
application and hardware dependant, of course.

73, ron wn3vaw

"Merry Christmas to All, and to All, a Good Night!...
When I wake up, I'm getting a CAT Scan!"
Tim Allen, "The Santa Clause"

----- Original Message -----
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:15:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Jim Reisert <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
Reply-To: jjreisert at alum.mit.edu
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] MS-DOS end-of-life 31 December 2002

A lot of us rely on DOS for our contest logging.  According to Microsoft's
policies, all support for DOS and Windows 95 ended on 31 December 2001 and
product end-of-life follows one year later:

  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle.mspx

Of course, this doesn't mean much, since as long as we have DOS floppies and
PCs that can load them, we can continue to build DOS-based logging systems.

Has anyone experimented with any of these DOS replacements (in a contest
environment)?  I thought that DR-DOS had some sort of

  http://www.freedos.org/
  http://www.drdos.com/
  http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/dos/

My recollection is that DR-DOS had some sort of networking support built-in.

73 - Jim AD1C


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