Jim Hall

Hi there! I'm Jim Hall, the founder and Project Coordinator of the FreDOS Project.

I started FreeDOS in 1994, when I was still an undergraduate physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Almost immediately, other developers contacted me, and we began work creating our own version of DOS that would be compatible with MS-DOS. I packaged my own extended DOS utilities, as did others, and we found other public domain or open source programs that replaced other DOS commands. A few months later, we released our first FreeDOS Alpha distribution. And from there, FreeDOS grew into what you see today!

• Find more information about FreeDOS in our press kit
• Read about the history of FreeDOS in our 2017 ebook, 23 Years of FreeDOS
• Learn more about FreeDOS in our 2018 book, Using FreeDOS
• You can also see my professional page at personal.freedos.org