DR DOS 5.0

[John Boffemmyer IV]

actually, my comments come from a number of forums on the matter and 
the fact that I had first hand interaction with the Novell/Caldera 
gang and DR DOS was available for web-based download up until some 
point in 2002/2003 from their site. Lineo might have purchased it 
before that, but as for where it was available, Caldera/Novell still 
had it at that point. I was simply mentioning major names (not 
intermediate) and DR DOS was freeware when it was still with 
Caldera/Novell. Lineo may have licensed it or made it shareware (much 
like its current holder, DeviceLogic.). Lineo's official releases 
were not public/free domain, thus, making my comments on .04 and .05 factual.

please see:
http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225895/drdos/history.htm

states as fact that it was only available for OEM purchase in packs of 50.
during this time frame, it fails to state that Caldera/Novell still 
had the 7.03 available on their sites for download (part of the sales 
agreement to Lineo/SCO, etc). Research is a good thing...
-John

At 03:20 PM 7/28/2005, you wrote:

>On 7/28/05, John Boffemmyer IV <john_boffemmyer_iv at boff-net.dhs.org> wrote:
> > Actually, it WAS called DR DOS as it used to be
> > owned by Caldera until 2003 (which was at one
> > time part of Novell). It is now owned by SCO
>
>While I don't disagree with your comments about SCO, you're off beam
>on the history of DR-DOS. Lineo got it before 2000 -- it's not been
>Caldera/SCO property for a *long* time and you've missed 2
>intermediate name changes.
>
> > There are
> > "unofficial" releases of DR DOS 7.04 and 7.05.
> > They are part of Partition Magic, Western
> > Digital, Quantum/Maxtor and Seagate/OnTrack
> > Diagnostics.
>
>True, but they were official, from Lineo. They don't run DOS apps
>well, though -- it's been tried.
>
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