| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
 | Date | Lines | 
|---|
| 3366.1 | yes, unix flavors | TLE::KNIGHT |  | Fri Apr 11 1997 09:58 | 4 | 
|  |     linux (several flavors), freebsd, netbsd, openbsd . . .
    
    If you want MS compatible free/shareware, good luck.
    
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| 3366.2 |  | RUSURE::EDP | Always mount a scratch monkey. | Tue Apr 15 1997 09:09 | 8 | 
|  |     OpenDOS is available from Caldera, www.caldera.com.
    
    
    				-- edp
    
    
Public key fingerprint:  8e ad 63 61 ba 0c 26 86  32 0a 7d 28 db e7 6f 75
To find PGP, read note 2688.4 in Humane::IBMPC_Shareware.
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| 3366.3 |  | WRKSYS::INGRAHAM | Andy | Tue Apr 15 1997 10:27 | 11 | 
|  | There was "4DOS" ... but I haven't heard much about it recently.  It was
a shareware DOS replacement.  There should be at least one 4DOS note
in this notesfile.
Digging further back into ancient history ... there was PCVMS, a
DOS-replacement that had some VMS-like features.  I think it was just
a COMMAND.COM replacement, which means it loaded itself on top of your
basic DOS rather than completely replacing it.  I think this (or maybe
I'm thinking of yet another one?) was free to DECcies, long ago.
For those interested in history, there's a PCVMS notesfile on KAOFS::.
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| 3366.4 |  | SMURF::PBECK | Who put the bop in the hale-de-bop-de-bop? | Tue Apr 15 1997 11:47 | 1 | 
|  |     4DOS wasn't an operating system -- it was an alternative CLI.
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| 3366.5 | I hadn't had my coffee yet | WRKSYS::INGRAHAM | Andy | Tue Apr 15 1997 11:55 | 2 | 
|  | Yeah, I was trying to remember which replaced just COMMAND.COM, which ran
as a program on top of COMMAND.COM, etc.  You're right.
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