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== References == {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="FreeDOS_Spec">{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/FreeDOS_Spec#Programming_languages |title=FreeDOS Spec |date=2008-12-24 |website=FreeDOS Wiki |publisher=Freedos |access-date=2017-02-09 |archive-date=2023-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526164818/http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/FreeDOS_Spec#Programming_languages |url-status=dead }}</ref> <ref name="FreeDOS_A1">{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/Alpha1 |title=Releases/Alpha 1 |date=2021-04-22 |website=FreeDOS Wiki |publisher=Freedos |access-date=2023-06-07}}</ref> <ref name="Villani_1996_Kernel">{{Cite book |author-last=Villani |author-first=Pat |author-link=Pat Villani |title=FreeDOS Kernel |date=1996 |publisher=Miller Freeman |location=Emeryville, CA, USA |isbn=0-87930-436-7}}</ref> <ref name="homepage">{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page |title=Main Page |website=FreeDOS Wiki |access-date=2017-02-09 |publisher=The FreeDOS Project |archive-date=2023-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230625181203/http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page |url-status=dead }}</ref> <ref name="Franske_2007_USB">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bensbits.com/2007/08/21/booting_dos_from_a_usb_flash_drive |title=Booting DOS from a USB flash drive |date=2007-08-21 |access-date=2008-08-04 |author-last=Franske |author-first=Ben |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218031708/http://www.bensbits.com/2007/08/21/booting_dos_from_a_usb_flash_drive |archive-date=2010-02-18}}</ref> <ref name="FreeDOS_Floppy">{{Cite web |url=http://www.linfo.org/freedos_floppy.html |title=How to Create a Bootable FreeDOS Floppy Disk |date=2005-07-19 |access-date=2008-08-04}}</ref> <ref name="Gallagher_2014">{{Cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/it-may-be-barely-an-operating-system-but-dos-still-matters-to-some-people/ |title=Though "barely an operating system," DOS still matters (to some people) |author-last=Gallagher |author-first=Sean |date=2014-07-14 |website=ArsTechnica |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=2017-02-09 |quote=But FreeDOS has become much more friendly to virtualization and hardware emulation—it's even the heart of the DOSEMU emulator}}</ref> <ref name="4DOS">{{Cite web |url=https://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=4dos |title=4DOS |access-date=2014-06-06 |publisher=The FreeDOS Project |website=FreeDOS |archive-date=2021-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624204640/https://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=4dos |url-status=dead }}</ref> <ref name="FLOSS">{{FLOSSweekly|416|Hall, Jim}}</ref> <ref name="Hall_1994_Announcement">{{Cite newsgroup |title=PD-DOS project *announcement* |author-link=Jim Hall (computer programmer) |author-first=Jim |author-last=Hall |date=1994-06-29 |work=comp.os.msdos.apps |url=https://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.msdos.apps/browse_thread/thread/a10993e044dc4b35/e1bb36f1f0d1513b?lnk=st&q=&rnum=26#e1bb36f1f0d1513b |access-date=2008-06-14}}</ref> <ref name="linuxdevices">{{Cite web |url=http://archive.linuxgizmos.com/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-freedos-project-a/ |title=The past, present, and future of the FreeDOS Project |date=2002-03-25 |access-date=2008-06-14 |author-last=Hall |author-first=Jim |author-link=Jim Hall (computer programmer) |website=LinuxGizmos.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224183747/http://archive.linuxgizmos.com/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-freedos-project-a/ |archive-date=2013-12-24 |url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name="Hall_2006_About">{{Cite web |url=https://www.freedos.org/freedos/about/ |date=2006-09-23 |title=About |author-first=Jim |author-last=Hall |author-link=Jim Hall (computer programmer) |publisher=The FreeDOS Project |website=FreeDOS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527173146/https://www.freedos.org/freedos/about/ |archive-date=2007-05-27 |access-date=2014-06-17}}</ref> <ref name="Adams_2005">{{Cite web |author-last=Adams |author-first=David |title=Introducing GNU/DOS 2005 |url=http://www.osnews.com/story/10900/Introducing_GNU_DOS_2005 |website=OSNews |access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref> <ref name="Marinof_GNU/DOS">{{Cite web |author-last=Marinof |author-first=Mihai |title=GNU/DOS Project Discontinued |date=2006-12-02 |url=http://news.softpedia.com/news/GNU-DOS-Project-Discontinued-41470.shtml |access-date=2016-11-27}}</ref> <ref name="freedos">{{Cite web |url=https://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=5109&id=305444 |title=Announcement on official FreeDOS homepage |date=2012-01-02 |access-date=2012-01-02 |author-first=Jim |author-last=Hall |author-link=Jim Hall (computer programmer) |website=SourceForge}}</ref> <ref name="freedos files">{{Cite web |url=https://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ |title=FreeDOS 1.0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105002254/https://www.freedos.org/freedos/files |archive-date=2011-11-05 |access-date=2015-12-21 |publisher=The FreeDOS Project |website=FreeDOS.org}}</ref> <ref name="Vance_2005_Dell">{{Cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/06/dell_open_pc/ |title=How Dell repels attempts to buy its 'open source' PC |access-date=2008-01-02 |author-last=Vance |author-first=Ashlee |author-link=Ashlee Vance |website=[[The Register]]}}</ref> <ref name="Hewlett-Packard_2012">{{Cite web |title=HP Compaq dc5750 Business PC |url=http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12546_na/12546_na.HTML |publisher=Hewlett-Packard |access-date=2016-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113070156/http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12546_na/12546_na.HTML |archive-date=2012-11-13}}</ref> <ref name="EWeek_2009_HP">{{Cite web |url=http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/First-Look-at-HPs-LowCost-ProBook-Laptop-Lineup-880043/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122141750/http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/First-Look-at-HPs-LowCost-ProBook-Laptop-Lineup-880043/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 January 2013 |title=First Look at HP's Low-Cost ProBook Laptop Lineup |access-date=2009-03-26 |publisher=[[EWeek]] }}</ref> <ref name="McCracken_2009">{{Cite web |url=http://technologizer.com/2009/06/23/hps-mini-5101-netbook-deluxe-with-all-the-trimmings/ |title=HP's Mini 5101: Netbook Deluxe, With All the Trimmings |access-date=2009-08-01 |author-last=McCracken |author-first=Harry |date=2009-06-23 |publisher=Technologizer}}</ref> <ref name="HP_2010">{{Cite web |url=http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3442832&swItem=ob-88522-1&mode=4&idx=3 |title=FreeDOS Bootable Media |access-date=2011-01-13 |date=2010-10-25 |publisher=[[Hewlett-Packard]] |archive-date=2012-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308140217/http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3442832&swItem=ob-88522-1&mode=4&idx=3 |url-status=dead }}</ref> <ref name="Goldstein_2004_SpinRite">{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7684 |title=SpinRite 6.0 for Linux Users |date=2004-07-19 |access-date=2017-02-09 |author-first=Leon A. |author-last=Goldstein |magazine=[[Linux Journal]]}}</ref> <ref name="Intel_SATA">{{Cite web |title=Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool |url=http://downloadcenter.intel.com/detail_desc.aspx?agr=&ProductID=&DwnldID=18363&strOss=&OSFullName=&lang=eng |publisher=[[Intel]] |access-date=2016-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325101703/http://downloadcenter.intel.com/detail_desc.aspx?agr=&ProductID=&DwnldID=18363&strOss=&OSFullName=&lang=eng |archive-date=2010-03-25}}</ref> <ref name="FloppyDivX">{{Cite web |url=http://membres.multimania.fr/zeroiq/index.php?page=40..FED-UP%20boot%20floppy%20.php |title=Floppy Enhanced DivX Universal Player |access-date=2009-12-18}}</ref> <ref name="FUZOMA">{{Cite web |url=http://superkeen.com/peacecorpsweblog/learning-software/ |title=FUZOMA Educational Software |access-date=2009-12-18}}</ref> <ref name="kraileth_TK">{{Cite web |author=kraileth |url=https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/an-extraordinary-tk-example/ |title=An extraordinary TK example! | eerielinux |publisher=Eerielinux.wordpress.com |date=2012-10-12 |access-date=2019-01-29}}</ref> <ref name="kraileth_nanolinux">{{Cite web |author=kraileth |url=https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/an-interview-with-the-nanolinux-developer/ |title=An interview with the Nanolinux developer | eerielinux |publisher=Eerielinux.wordpress.com |date=2014-12-30 |access-date=2019-01-29}}</ref> <ref name="Winnie_AIM">{{Cite web |url=http://tawny.cs.nott.ac.uk:80/~sbx/winnie/aim/overview.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990420083003/http://tawny.cs.nott.ac.uk:80/~sbx/winnie/aim/overview.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=1999-04-20 |title=Artificial Intelligence Methods |access-date=2019-01-29}}</ref> <ref name="Georg_HP">{{Cite web |url=http://www.georgpotthast.de/ |title=Georg's Personal Homepage |publisher=Georgpotthast.de |access-date=2019-01-29}}</ref> <ref name="FreeDOS-History">{{Cite web |url=https://www.freedos.org/history/ |title=FreeDOS History |publisher=Freedos.org |access-date=2019-01-29}}</ref> <ref name="FreeDOS-Comparison">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/compare.html |title=FreeDOS software package comparison |publisher=Ibiblio.org |access-date=2019-01-29}}</ref> <ref name="FreeDOS-Old">{{Cite mailing list |title=Removing old distributions from ibiblio |author-first=Jim |author-last=Hall |author-link=Jim Hall (computer programmer) |date=2007-10-02 |work=freedos-devel |url=http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05988.html |access-date=2009-10-07}}</ref> <ref name="Lowe_2003">{{Cite web |url=http://www.techrepublic.com/article/configure-it-quick-use-freedos-as-a-replacement-for-ms-dos/ |author-last=Lowe |author-first=Scott |title=Configure IT Quick: Use FreeDOS as a replacement for MS-DOS |date=2003-07-22 |website=TechRepublic |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=2017-02-09}}</ref> <ref name="Techworld">{{Cite web |author-last=Broersma |author-first=Matthew |title=DOS lives! Open source reinvents past |url=http://news.techworld.com/operating-systems/6783/dos-lives-open-source-reinvents-past/ |website=Techworld |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102110346/http://news.techworld.com/operating-systems/6783/dos-lives-open-source-reinvents-past/ |archive-date=2013-11-02 |date=2006-09-04}}</ref> <ref name="Grech_2014">{{Cite web |author-last=Grech |author-first=Andreas |title=HX DOS Extender |url=http://www.japheth.de/HX.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141003032417/http://www.japheth.de/HX.html |archive-date=2014-10-03}}</ref> <ref name="Aitor_2014">{{Cite web |url=https://www.freedos.org/history/newsitem/166.html |title=Windows on FreeDOS? |date=2014-09-03 |access-date=2017-02-09 |author-first=Aitor |author-last=Santamaria-Merino |publisher=FreeDOS }}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> <ref name="Herbert_2004">{{Cite web |url=http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/freedos_no_removable.html |title=Install FreeDOS without any CD, floppy, USB-key, nor any other removable media |date=2004-10-01 |access-date=2009-05-26 |author-first=Marc |author-last=Herbert}}</ref> <ref name="ReactOS">{{Cite web |url=https://reactos.org/wiki/FreeLoader |title=FreeLoader — ReactOS Wiki |website=reactos.org |access-date=2017-06-30}}</ref> <ref name="Hilpert_2015_Bootable_Stick">{{Cite web |url=https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_USB_Stick |title=Creating a Bootable DOS USB Stick |date=2015-05-07 |access-date=2017-02-09 |author-first=Dominik |author-last=Hilpert}}</ref> <ref name="Mueller_2013">{{Cite book |author-last=Mueller |author-first=Scott |date=2013-03-22 |title=Upgrading and Repairing PCs |edition=21st |url=http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/printerfriendly/2028834 |publisher=[[Pearson Education|Que Publishing]]}}</ref> <ref name="Gallagher_2014_Old-school">{{Cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/dos-boot-ars-spends-a-day-working-in-freedos/ |author-last=Gallagher |author-first=Sean |title=Old school: I work in DOS for an entire day |date=2014-07-03 |website=ArsTechnica |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=2017-02-09}}</ref> <ref name="Turner_2018">{{cite web |author-last=Turner |author-first=Rich |title=Re-Open-Sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 |url=https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/09/28/re-open-sourcing-ms-dos-1-25-and-2-0/ |website=Windows Command Line Tools For Developers |date=2018-09-28 |access-date=2018-09-29}}</ref> <ref name="FDOS_2021">{{Cite web |title=FDOS/kernel |url=https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/blob/master/COPYING |access-date=2021-05-31 |website=GitHub |language=en}}</ref> <ref name="FD_Logo">{{Cite web |url=http://www.freedos.org/press-kit/logos.html |title=FreeDOS official logos<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2019-05-31 |archive-date=2021-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201754/http://www.freedos.org/press-kit/logos.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> <ref name="FDOS_Download">{{Cite web |url=https://www.freedos.org/download/ |title=FreeDOS Download Page |website=The FreeDOS Project}}</ref> }}
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