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

[Denny Sahovic]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Rodowicz" <Stefan.Rodowicz at Verizon.net>
To: <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] MS-DOS end-of-life 31 December 2002
>
> Last week I couldn't find the MS-Dos 6.22 disks, so I downloaded the
latest
> DR-Dos (ver 7.xx)  used it to run TR for the contest.

Does this end of support by Microsoft mean that someone can put
MS DOS 6.xx on the web page for a free download?

Denny, KX7M


> At 09:15 AM 11/25/02 -0800, Jim Reisert wrote:
> >   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.
> >