Subj : Re: BBSing on CP/M
To   : Otto Reverse
From : acn
Date : Mon Sep 20 2021 15:48:00

Am 18.09.21 schrieb Otto Reverse@21:1/225 in FSX_RETRO:

Hallo Otto,

OR> Didn't DR-DOS become Caldera DOS and then FreeDOS?  Not sure.

The history of DR DOS is more or less like this:
- First, it came from Digital Research (DRI), up to version 6.0
- Then, Novell bought DRI and continued selling DR DOS 6
- The next version was Novell DOS 7
- Then, Novell sold everything DRI to Caldera
- Caldera brought Caldera OpenDOS 7.01, which was free for home users
- Then, Caldera offered Caldera DR-DOS 7.02 and 7.03
- Afterwards, DR DOS came to "Caldera Thin Clients", which became  
"Lineo", then to Canopy Group, then to DeviceLogics - which became  
DRDOS, Inc.
- DR-DOS 8 came out in 2004, 8.1 in 2005; both disappeared because of  
copyright problems (stolen programs from FreeDOS)

Just fyi :)

Regards,
Anna

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