Jim Hall
Hi There!
I'm Jim Hall, the founder and Project Coordinator for the FreeDOS Project.
I started FreeDOS in 1994, when I was an undergraduate physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Other developers got in touch with me, and we began work creating our own version of DOS that would be compatible with MS-DOS. I shared the extended DOS utilities that I had written for myself, as did others. We also found 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!
More Information
- My email address is jhall@freedos.org
- Find more information about FreeDOS in our press kit (zip)
- Read about the history of FreeDOS in our 2017 book, 23 Years of FreeDOS
- Learn more about FreeDOS in our 2018 book, Using FreeDOS
- At work, I am the CEO of Hallmentum LLC