Excuse me, everyone, do you have any free DOS32 USB boot software? - China DOS Union Forum

Yes, from a research perspective, FreeDOS32 is good and fills a gap. But from a practical perspective, it's really not necessary to spend time on it.

FreeDOS32 is a brand - new 32 - bit operating system and has no binary compatibility with the old DOS. All DOS applications need to be rewritten, otherwise they can't run under FreeDOS32.

As a brand - new operating system, FreeDOS32 is worthy of research. But if the compatibility with the old DOS is considered relatively important, then FreeDOS32 is overshadowed. Since it's called DOS but can't be well compatible with DOS, this makes FreeDOS32 an isolated development project. And it's for this reason that sometimes everyone feels that FreeDOS32 is of no value.

From a technical point alone, FreeDOS32 is very characteristic and should continue to be developed. But if other factors are considered, such as because of the existence of Microsoft, and Microsoft's systems are more important and popular, then other existing systems also have to consider compatibility with Microsoft. For example, LINUX can be said to have the lineage of UNIX from the very beginning and has little connection with Microsoft, but now there are many projects on LINUX that exist for compatibility with Microsoft (such as the famous Wine and OpenOffice). Therefore, a system like FreeDOS32 won't be paid much attention by many people and will even be gradually marginalized.

Compared with FreeDOS, FreeDOS32 loses popularity due to the lack of DOS compatibility, while the latter gains more attention because of having better DOS compatibility.

Floor1　cqyking	Posted 2006-06-28 12:11
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I want to ask which elder brother has the startup software of FREE DOS32 USB?

Floor2　Wengier	Posted 2006-06-29 03:35
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FreeDOS 32 is currently in the pre-alpha state, extremely unstable, and can only be used for testing and is not practical.

Floor3　不点	Posted 2006-06-29 09:02
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Yes, from a research perspective, FreeDOS32 is good and fills a gap. But from a practical perspective, it's really not necessary to spend time on it. FreeDOS32 is a brand - new 32 - bit operating system and has no binary compatibility with the old DOS. All DOS applications need to be rewritten, otherwise they can't run under FreeDOS32. As a brand - new operating system, FreeDOS32 is worthy of research. But if the compatibility with the old DOS is considered relatively important, then FreeDOS32 is overshadowed. Since it's called DOS but can't be well compatible with DOS, this makes FreeDOS32 an isolated development project. And it's for this reason that sometimes everyone feels that FreeDOS32 is of no value. From a technical point alone, FreeDOS32 is very characteristic and should continue to be developed. But if other factors are considered, such as because of the existence of Microsoft, and Microsoft's systems are more important and popular, then other existing systems also have to consider compatibility with Microsoft. For example, LINUX can be said to have the lineage of UNIX from the very beginning and has little connection with Microsoft, but now there are many projects on LINUX that exist for compatibility with Microsoft (such as the famous Wine and OpenOffice). Therefore, a system like FreeDOS32 won't be paid much attention by many people and will even be gradually marginalized. Compared with FreeDOS, FreeDOS32 loses popularity due to the lack of DOS compatibility, while the latter gains more attention because of having better DOS compatibility.