TIMELINE OF THE FREEDOS PROJECT

updated 8/14/00 jhall

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:- 12/93(?) - Jim Hall installs SLS 1.03 distribution of Linux, using
:  Kernel 0.99pl13.  This gets Jim thinking that free software is cool.
:  (I know for sure it was SLS 1.03, pretty sure it was pl13, not
:  sure it was exactly 12/93, but it was after I got back from Colorado.)
:
========================================1994
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:- 6/94(?) - Microsoft announces that they will stop support for
:  MS-DOS (note the impending release of Windows 95)
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:- 7/94 - the Free-DOS project is created by Jim Hall, a University of
:  Wisconsin-River Falls physics student
:- 7/94 - the Free-DOS Manifesto is written
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:- 8/94 - SunSITE hosts the Free-DOS web/ftp site
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:- 10/94 - the Free-DOS Manifesto is updated to specify compatibility
:  with MS-DOS.
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:- 11/94(?) - Pat Villani contacts Free-DOS about using DOS/NT as the
:  Free-DOS Kernel.
:- 11/94 - Tim Norman writes first version (0.01) of the Free-DOS
:  command.com shell
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:- 12/94(?) - Free-DOS Kernel is renamed DOS-C and put under the GNU GPL
:- 12/94 - Hannibal Toal becomes new Free-DOS coordinator
:- 12/94(mid?) - Alpha1 release of FreeDOS
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========================================1995
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:- 1/95 - Jim Hall graduates UW-RF, gets job
:- 1/95(?) - Alpha2 release of FreeDOS
:- 1/95 - Free-DOS web site created by Hannibal Toal.  Site is later
:  moved to http://www.freedos.org (when?)
:- 1/27/95 - Alpha3 release of FreeDOS
:
========================================1996
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:- 8/96 - Free-DOS command.com (later, FreeCOM) supports ALIAS
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:- 10/96 - R+D Books publishes THE FREEDOS KERNEL by Pat Villani.
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:- 11/96(?) - The Free-DOS Project loses the dash, becomes "FreeDOS"
:
========================================1997
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:- 3/97 - DOS World Magazine features FreeDOS in article titled "DOS
:  on the Internet".  This is our first big exposure in a magazine.
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:- 10/97(?) - FreeDOS Alpha5 is released (when was Alpha4?)
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:- 11/97 - FreeDOS Install program
:- 11/97 - First modern FreeDOS distribution, based on Alpha5
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========================================1998
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:- 7/98 - FreeDOS Beta1 (Orlando) is released!
:- 7/98 - Interface magazine (Japan) publishes a story about FreeDOS
:  and embedded systems.  This is our first media exposure overseas.
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:- 8/98 - Future Tense (NPR Radio) airs an interview with Jim Hall
:  about FreeDOS.  This is our first exposure in non-print media.
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:- 9/98 - FreeDOS Spec is posted (updated from FreeDOS Manifesto)
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:- 10/98 - FreeDOS Beta2 (Marvin) is released!
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:- 12/98 - John Price becomes new maintainer of the FreeDOS kernel.
:- 12/98 - Developers now have CVS access to update the kernel.
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========================================1999
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:- 3/99 - kernel build 2005: IPL.SYS is removed.
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:- 4/99 - FreeCOM is now available via CVS
:- 4/99(?) - FreeDOS Documentation Project (FD-DOC) is formed
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:- 5/99 - FreeDOS Beta3 (Ventura) is released!
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:- 10/99 - The RxDOS code is opened up, moved to the FreeDOS web site
:- 10/99 - kernel build 2017f: CD-ROM support by James Tabor
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:- 12/99 - Gingging (a DOS distribution based on FreeDOS) is released
:- 12/99 - FreeDOS Beta4 (Lemur) is released!
:
========================================2000
:
:- 1/00 - Slashdot runs an interview with Jim Hall about the FreeDOS
:  Project.  If you're a computer geek, you know how cool this is.
:
:- 6/25/00 - Steffen Kaiser new maintainer of FreeCOM.
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:- 8/00 - FreeCOM 0.79c released
:- 8/12/00 - FreeDOS Kernel build 2021 released. This is a much more
   stable kernel than everything we have seen before.  Supports UMB.
:- 8/00 - 32-bit port of FreeDOS kernel is launched
:- 8/13/00 - FreeDOS Beta5 (Lara) is released!
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